SYNOPSIS
OEDIPUS CYCLES
THEATRE –OPERA-NOVEL
Began the Theban Cycles
Began the Circles of Oedipus ,
Oedipus Rex , Oedipus at Colonus ,
Antigone, Jocasta .
Started cycles of Oedipus B and Antigone B
Completing the circles of posthumously,
Reveal the past - present and future
What we know and do not know.
PRIEST
Omniscient Oedipus we came to ask you
How to save the city .
Make your miracle as you did before
from bitch Sphinx .
OEDIPUS
Thebans rocked my soul
From the evil that found us.
OEDIPUS -B
What I would not give to not hear
Those who I heard.
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OEDIPUS
Favorite Antigone
In who country we reached now.
In who country will accept your blind father.
Ah! Daughter-my daughter
Child unholy father
Unfairly wander in Foreigner.
DANCE
Sang little Antigone
Sang
Blind Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arrived in Athens
Theseus, the ruler of Athens
Who killed his father ,
He married his mother
And had children together.
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Do not happen these terrible facts.
Phoebus asked to leave the impurity that contaminated the city,
This who killed Laius when he went pilgrim
In oracle of Delphi .
Great Oedipus said front in all that discovers
The guilty.
Rumors said that a wayfarer killed Laius.
OEDIPUS
Cry the seer Tiresias
To uncover the culprit
To save the city.
TEIRESIAS
I know the truth
But I can not say
Living great drama.
OEDIPUS
Speak testy old man
someone you hide
Do not shout the guards.
TEIRESIAS
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Big Oedipus
You're the guilty
You killed Laius .
OEDIPUS
Tiresia careful what you say
will not regret that you are blind.
TEIRESIAS
Misfortune Oedipus
You are father and brother of your children
You are a man of your mother
Where did children with her.
You are the one who killed his father Laius
On the way to Delphi .
Then Oedipus accused Creon that he
Put Tiresia say these nonsenses.
JOCASTA
Well why you cry like little children
My husband and my brother fighting
As roosters .
DANCE
What said the wise seer
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It's awful and terrible .
JOCASTA
An oracle said that my husband
Will be killed by his son
That would make with me .
But Laios was killed by robbers
in the crossroads road for Phocis .
Once the child was born - we gave to a shepherd
To fly in Cithaeron ,
After we tied up his legs from ankles .
OEDIPUS
Once I heard that it should not have to hear .
I make what I should not make
The curses come true.
JOCASTA
My husband you put me in great concern
Ask what you want to know .
OEDIPUS
Was Killed no one of the fray.
JOCASTA
A servant who I sent him away after the murder.
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OEDIPUS
Is a great need to see him .
When the shepherd came revealed to Oedipus
How he gave the baby to another shepherd
That took him and went to Corinth
Growing Oedipus learned that an old oracle
said that he will kill his father ,
And will marry his mother.
For this he left Corinth
In the crossroads road for Phocida killed his father ,
Laius without knowing .
JOCASTA
Together we will uncover the truth
Together in life and in death .
The child that I gave birth with Laio
We left him in Kitherona
Because we knew the Oracles .
OEDIPUS
I want to see the shepherd .
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MESSENGER
Lovely king Oedipus
Learn how you're not child of Polybos
And Merope.
Fearlessness you can turn in Corinth
And take over the kingdom .
Your parents are not your parents
I myself gave I you in these newborn.
You are a foster son .
OEDIPUS
How you found me .
MESSENGER
For my good luck I found you in Cithaeron ,
I was shepherd and I kept flocks
I saved from certain death.
See toes of your kegs
To understand.
It was drilled with hammers
For this they call Oedipus .
The shepherd gave you to me
He knows ,
He is a servant of Laius .
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OEDIPUS
Who Theban knows the shepherd
I want to know
Who is my generation.
Jocasta entered convulsed in the house
Gone mad.
DANCE
king Oedipus
Comes the shepherd.
OEDIPUS
Come you know this old man.
SERVANT
I can not remember
Who is my king.
MESSENGER
Together we watch the flocks in Kitherona
And we had good company
Remember me I gave you the baby.
OEDIPUS
Answered that he asked for the child.
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SERVANT
Since I gave the child
Dying every day.
Yes I gave .
OEDIPUS
Who is the generation.
SERVANT
My King
Your wife knows
This gave the child.
An old oracle said
How this child
will kill his parents.
I gave him in this shepherd
To goes to another country
And be saved.
OEDIPUS
My Light is the last time
that I see you,
I sink in deep darkness.
Alas
What evil fate to haunt me.
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I am a child and killer
Those gave birth me,
I made wild murder without I know
Jocasta had pitiful end ,
In frenetic situation it entered in the palace shouting.
IOKASTI
Ali and tris Ali
The mad, the bad mother
The bitch had children with my children ,
I had man and father of my children my son
Where was their brother .
Running walked into Oedipus , torn up like a wild beast.
In vain was looking to Jocasta his wife and mother.
He found the unfortunate fallen on the floor
With a sword nailed in the abdomen.
Just Oedipus saw Jocasta dead
stood and began to cry bitterly .
stood and began to hit
And curses shouting unintelligible words.
On his big madness
Plunged fingers into his eyes
And tore with his own hands .
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Thrilled flew bulbs on the floor ,
River started running the blood
Bathing the whole said ecstatic.
OEDIPUS
Now I leave for the immense country of Darkness
No one might not
To touch me ,
Until I find the light - the Uncreated .
Better to die then
They cast me in Cithaeron .
CREON
Thebans will sent to the holy city of Athens
Ask from Oedipus ,
To go back to Thebes
Alone it turns in Foreigner
Together with his daughter Antigone .
OEDIPUS
You're asking to go back to Thebes
Where they found me many trials
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To confirm the oracle .
The city of Athens will conquer Thebes
Through cycles of Eternal Return.
Eteocles and Polynices my children
They will not get the power .
Quickly comes their celestial burial .
I do not turn back
Here in Athens
So commands cosmic justice.
DANCE
Started the cycle great time of Return
Began the war of chaotic Thebes
And big time Athens
Both sides of Same- currency.
OEDIPUS
One day they will avenge the stars
Comes total Catastrophe.
CREON
Nobody can not
live in the light,
Who will lead you.
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OEDIPUS
Antigone
Antigone where are you.
CREON
We will steal Antigone
To turn behind in Thebes
OEDIPUS
Terrible you can not
make this.
You will have the same fate as me.
CREON
Hold on Oedipus
Never came out in good.
THESEUS
Nobody will hurt Oedipus
He is protected from goddess Athena
And mine.
OEDIPUS
Unintentionally I married my mother
And had children with her.
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CREON
And his children.
Her people commands what I make.
DANCE
The age-old rivals
Chaotic Thebes and Big Time Athens
OEDIPUS
Eteocles and Polynices
My two children were killed
front the walls of seven-gate city of Thebes
Caused great hubris.
The death of brotherly hand is unsaid.
DANCE
Uncreated Light of world
Ιt pulled into the black hole of postmortem
Much afflicted Oedipus.
ALL TOGETHER
This is the democracy of the big time
This is Story.
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NIKOS KOLESIS
