David Lindemann

Philoktetes on Lemnos, a Greek hero, fearfully hopes for the arrival of Odysseus. Lucy, a war correspondent, joyfully hopes for something sensational. Rainer, an ex-mountaineer, forcibly hopes to see a photo of the Yeti known as Chemo. Philoktetes’ wound, buried on the beach, passionately hopes to re-enter society. The hero's decision, however, is still pending. Sophocles or Miller? Hero or anti-hero? Heracles's bow, directed by Philoktetes, misses its goal. The arrow is in the journalist's neck, but there are no significant defects. A proof of love? Philoktetes is not sure; she indecently assaulted the tea of Odysseus. The isolation of the island brings people together, and so all the characters meet the beach. Odysseus emerges, once Philoktetes is long gone. The battle for Troy is past and the tea isn’t his affair. Old Odysseus has become senile. There is no more talk of fighting. Philoktetes? Who is this? The myth has a new variant.

"Deep in the realm of chemo, a glass of milky tea supplements the absence of the sacred center before the image of the Dalai Lama, a glass from which no one drinks. It is nothing but the presence of absence, a lack, a postponement, which washes the stranded again and again on the beach of Lemnos. Philoktetes can read about it, since it has already been written down, but the scriptures don’t come true. Instead, he is confronted with himself. The tragedy is this, is its own delay. The wound festers on the beach, the missing field-master hides behind the horizon, the center of gravity is in the inner abyss: Odysseus. " (David Lindemann)