Theater alumni: Volodia Piotrovitch d'Orlik stars in “Oedipus Rex”

Œdipe Roi

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is considered the tragedy of tragedies. It is one of the first examples of incest in European literature. A gray area remains behind the founding myth of Western theater: real incest and its millions of victims. What can art do in the face of incest? And what is the impact of incest on art, images, and language? This question is all the more pressing given that it is precisely silence that allows the “culture of incest” to organize its impunity and perpetuate itself, generation after generation. Through a personal and historical investigation of great emotional power, combining the history of psychoanalysis and social sciences with a meditation on the art of theater, Eddy D'aranjo continues his search for a renewed political theater that combines performance and documentary—two regimes of truth in the service of an art determined to show reality as it is, for what it is.

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February 7 to 22, 2026

Tuesday to Saturday - 7:30 p.m.

Sunday - 3:00 p.m.

Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe - Place de l'Odéon, 75006 Paris

Prices: starting at €15 - reservations required

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3 hours 30 minutes - ages 16 and up