Welcome to Thebes

Welcome to Thebes offers a passionate exploration of an encounter between the world’s richest and the world’s poorest countries in the aftermath of a brutal war. This is an urgent, thrilling and epic play for our time.

Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation. Without the aid of Theseus, the leader of the vastly wealthy state of Athens, she doesn’t stand a chance. But Theseus is arrogant, mercurial and motivated by profit. A swaggering opposition circles, impatient for insurrection. The body of the former dictator lies unburied.

Moira Buffini’s Welcome to Thebes premiered at the National Theatre, London, in June 2010 to great critical acclaim.

By Moira Buffini

Directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace

Set Design by Emily Leonard

Costume Design by Daniel Scott

Lighting Design by Joe Stathers

Sound Design by James Goldsworthy