Euripides' “The Bacchae,” directed by Catalan Carlus Padrissa, one of the founders of La Fura dels Baus, a company celebrated worldwide for its ability to rewrite the language of contemporary theater, opens the 56th edition of the Greek Theater Festival in Syracuse.

“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, probably in 463 BC."

Oedipus is the son of Laius. Unknowingly, he killed his father, married his mother, and fathered four children, who are his siblings. A work by Sophocles, directed by Robert Carsen, dramaturgy by Ian Burton, translation by Francesco Morosi. The show was revived as part of the 57th season of the INDA Foundation at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.

Blind and wandering, Oedipus arrives in Colonus, near Athens, supported by Antigone and then also by Ismene. Everyone avoided him, but now everyone seeks him, because the city that will have his tomb will be invincible, according to the oracles. Oedipus drives everyone away and, accompanied by the Athenian king Theseus, sets off towards death. Directed by Robert Carsen.

The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of hunting, Artemis, concludes it, but at the center of Euripides' “Hippolytus, Bearer of the Crown” (428 BC) are not the gods, but rather Phaedra's absolute, consuming human passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra hides her love and wastes away.