Rémusz Szikszai‘s production of the Oedipus (Oidipusz) will be performed at the Radnóti Theatre on the 16th of April with English surtitles. The English surtitle is only visible from the balcony seating area, so tickets of that area are reserved for non-Hungarian speakers. Please email your ticket request to szervezes@radnotiszinhaz.hu and you will receive a link to purchase your tickets online.
In Robert Icke‘s contemporary retelling, Oedipus is a man with a great future, a politician with a good chance of becoming prime minister, who promises his voters full transparency. No more cover-ups, even old files will be reopened. In this play set on election night, an ambitious man on the verge of victory is confronted with the realisation that nothing is what it seems – neither in politics nor in his private life. In the maze of political games, abuses of power and family secrets, Oedipus, who had everything, in a few hours loses it all, in search of justice.
Photo: Dániel Dömölky