Oedipus The King

The Fall of the Prime Minister Hævethfod. Oedipus The King in a modern setting.
Hævethfod is the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark. The word “hævet fod” stands for “swollen foot” in Danish, and the Prime Minister’s name comes from the mystery behind his birth. Hævethfod has a problem in his Kingdom. He receives a lot of complaint letters from the citizens saying that the country suffers from terrorist attacks and lack of produce on the market, but the headquarters of Rigspolitiet aren’t doing anything to help or protect the Danes. The Danes come to Hævethfod because he’s their hero who once saved Denmark from a big economic crisis. Hævethfod is told by his Senior Adviser Lars Rasmussen that the Parliament took

Hævethfod sends his Senior Advisor Rasmussen to find out from the Parliament the cause of such actions. When Rasmussen comes back, he delivers devastating news that the country is suffering because of a murder case from long ago of a previous Prime Minister named Laius. The case was closed unsolved by the Parliament’s decision, but now the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) is told to reopen the case and punish the country because of the fault of one person. Hævethfod announces that the murderer has to turn himself in to the DDIS in order to reduce the sentence. Prime Minister Hævethfod also calls a blind diviner, a wise old man, who helps detectives solve many cases. When the old man comes, he refuses to say anything; but, being threatened by the Prime Minister to be put into jail for treason, the diviner says that Hævethfod is the real murderer. These news infuriate Hævethfod; he declares that the blind diviner is probably the murderer and is trying to hide his own guilt. Hævethfod’s wife Jacoba tells

She says that long ago a diviner told that her child will kill his own father and do awful things; as a result, Jacoba gives her infant son to a farmer to leave out on a hillside to die with a pin through his ankles where three motorways meet. Also, she says that Laius was killed by robbers, not by his own son. But, something about her story troubles Hævethfod; it reminds him of an incident from his past, when he killed a stranger at a place where three motorways meet. Another worry haunts Hævethfod; as a young man, he learns from a diviner that he is fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Fear of the prophecy drove him from his home in New Zealand and brought him ultimately to Denmark. Again, Jacoba advises him not to worry about prophecies and says that the only eyewitness to Laius's death, a farmer, swore that five robbers killed him. Hævethfod summons this witness. Jacoba urges Hævethfod not to look into the past any further, but he stubbornly ignores her. Hævethfod goes on to question a mailman and a farmer, both of whom have information about how Hævethfod was abandoned as an infant and adopted by a new family. In a moment of