Everybody Lies
Everybody Lies

Summary/Abstract: Philoctetes directed by Barbara Wysocka (premiere: 30 XI 2012 at the Polski Theater in Wrocław) is the study of the three figures presented, based on the example of the titular protagonist, Odysseus, and Neoptolemus. The Polish premiere of Sophocles’s drama is a classical, simple staging, shorn of the multimedia elements and elaborate set designs that have characterized Wysocka’s theater to date. The tragedy of Philoctetes is enacted on an island-ramp, and commented upon by a one-person chorus. Wysocka does not contemporize the ancient text, she only problematizes the tragic conflict: “Wysocka demonstrates with a deus ex machina that in our depraved world even god is not above theological, political, and social discourses.”

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