Destabilizing Perspectives: Bringing the Greek Myth of Thyestes Up to Date in Emilio García Wehbi’s Staging

Abstract

On the basis of the Myth of Thyestes and the Senecan tragedy, Garcia Wehbi’s play Tiestes y Atreo staged at the Cervantes National Theatre deconstructs a number of key elements of Western-Christian history, such as patriarchy. This article undertakes a semiologic analysis of the various cultural referents (artistic, religious) inserted into the script in order to show how the concept of “inter-textual collage” underpins the poetry of the play, while it constitutes Garcia Wehbi’s main tool to destabilise the dominant symbolic order.