Production: Compagnie Léla
Author: Lola Molina
Producer: Compagnie Léla
Director: Lélio Plotton
Sound engineer: Bastien Varigault
Other key staff: With: Antoine Sastre, Cécile Bournay, Benoît Marchand, Raphaël Goguely, Daniel Anguera, Claude Esperanza
Synopsis:
French author Lola Molina has written an adaptation of the myth of the Labdacids, one of the most fascinating stories in Greek mythology.
This adaptation is a three-episode audio fiction series. It is a reinterpretation of Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’ major work.
The first episode tells the story of Laius and Jocasta, Oedipus’ parents, from his birth—which heralds the prophecy—up to the moment he is abandoned so that it will not come true.
The second episode (the one currently available for listening) retraces the reign of Oedipus and Jocasta and recounts how Oedipus learns that the prophecy has indeed been fulfilled (he has killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta) and his flight from Thebes.
The third episode (currently being written) recounts the life of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta.
We conceived this trilogy as a contemporary crime thriller (with suspense and plot twists), set entirely in the city of Thebes. In this claustrophobic setting, marked by immense underlying violence, the characters grapple with their destiny, bound to a divine prophecy from which they are unable to free themselves.
