L'Edipo dei Mille (M. Munaro): atreverte a una iniciación mistérica

Abstract

Those who enter LEdipo dei Mille. Tragedia dei sensi per uno spettatore know that they will be blindfolded; it is the single blindfold spettatore who, led by a small group of actors, will be acting as Oedipus. This way M. Munaro redirects Sophocles tragedy to another pattern of Greek ritual drama, that of Eleusinian Mysteries. In this paper we analyse the most significant coincidences: both the spettatore and the initiated make a personal choice which requires certain preliminary rites and which involves a journey in the dark. The spettatore, as well as the μύστης, lives a true experience that provides him or her with access to a decisive understanding; furthermore he/ she is guided by an affectionate mystagogus, the angelo. Finally, in both cases the experience is recognized as a gift, and silence is respected as necessary.