Actors: Kai Bredholt, Roberta Carreri, Jan Ferslev, Tage Larsen, Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Julia Varley, Torgeir Wethal, Frans Winther
Dramaturgy and direction: Eugenio Barba
Assistant director: Gitte Lindholt
Text: based on poems by Henrik Nordbrandt
Literary advisers: Thomas Bredsdorff and Ferdinando Taviani

Oedipus appears. The protagonists of the ancient myths - Medea, Cassandra, Daedalus, Orpheus - meet him in order to arrange a ceremony, the Great Funeral of History, which is thus transformed into myth. They prepare to bury the last representative of the twentieth-century dream of Revolution. And make it immortal.
The wake takes place in Colonus, in Canudos, in Kronstad, on the remote shore of an ocean, at the end of a millenium. During the vigil, the mythical characters relive the dark night of history, the lies and the horrors which made them eternal: the incestuous and murderous son of the couple who ruled hebes; the slaughtered children of Medea; the rape of Cassandra, the clairvoyant; the shadowy kingdom of death and the headof Orpheus singing as it floats downstream; the deadly wings of aedalus, the inventor of flight. While the petulant Odysseus comments with doubts and mocking remarks on the blind vitality of the living.
What is myth for us today, and what could it be? An archetype? A voice from the unconscious? A tale full of wisdom? A dark and dazzling clot of contradictions? A value to be desecrated? Nothing?
The darkest enigma shows itself through the contradictory survival of the myth, the enigma of its absence-presence.
Where does a myth hide? Where do we bury it? How do we keep it alive?