TRAGÉDIE DÉMOCRATIE

"What are you doing after the citizens' assembly? - I'm going to see Sophocles' latest play, it's wonderful, apparently." This 2500-year-old dialogue, found on a bottle shard, plunges us into the time of the first Greek tragedies as much as into that of Athenian democracy.

In the midst of an election context, Le Groupe O takes us to Greece in the fifth century BCE to question the democratic act. In Athens, a portion of the people decides directly: voting on laws, war, peace. Quite the opposite of our current representation systems. From this gap arises friction between past and present, shedding a different light on our relationship with power.

On stage, fiction and history blend: debating citizens, fragments of public life, or Sophocles in the middle of rehearsal. The theater becomes a space where thought is tested. With mischief, Tragédie Démocratie offers a mise en abyme, where yesterday's paradoxes reveal today's fractures.