Teiresia:s

Teiresias – one of the central figures in Greek mythology, yet always on the margins – is initially a man, later transforms into a woman, marries, gives birth to children, becomes a man again, then loses his sight and, as a blind man, sees more than he would like to. Shortly before his death, he recounts how it all came about in a hallucinatory monologue that once again evokes many ghosts from his past: from his fateful encounter with Zeus and Hera on Mount Olympus to Oedipus, Creon, Jocasta and Antigone, and finally to Odysseus who visits Teiresias as he waits for his end in the underworld.

With Teiresia:s, John von Düffel continues his series of frequently performed adaptations of the dramas of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, but this time he completely reinvents an old story. The fluid oscillation between genders, between deepest darkness and glaring clarity, between power and powerlessness, condenses into a text of permanent transition, in which the view of our world also changes incessantly.