One of the leading figures in contemporary Italian theatre, Alessandro Serra rewrites the myth of Oedipus for today's audience, transforming the ancient text into a bridge to a higher, collective knowledge. Blind and exiled, the king of Thebes, played here by Jared McNeill – an American actor who worked alongside Peter Brook for many years – becomes an emblem of the contemporary human condition.

How can the original power of the myth be restored today without reducing it to a simple story? In this work, Serra explores the possibility of “accomplishing the tragic” in the present, questioning not only the meaning but also the very language of tragedy. Sophocles' Greek, lofty and musical, transcends reality and leads to a deeper form of knowledge.
To reactivate this force, Serra chooses Grecanico, a residual and ancient language that still survives in a remote corner of Magna Graecia. It is a language made up of layers of sound, crossed by dialects and memories, capable of evoking without explaining, of touching visceral and not just rational chords.
In a Thebes reduced to a mere shadow of its former self, arid, sterile and decaying, Sophocles guides the viewer towards an inner light that will manifest itself in Colon, in the sacred forest where Oedipus will be literally absorbed by the gods.
With Tragùdia, Oedipus' song rises from the ruins of classical tragedy to explore the ruins of contemporary society, rediscovering the voice of the polis and ritual in search of lost collective knowledge.