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Best Bets: 'Two Trains Running,' Twelfth Night, Blues Brunch, 'Bloody King Oedipus!' Our staff picks the best things to do this week — with a look ahead.
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Episode 42: Ken Glazer, author of Searching for Oedipus The roaming theatre podcast coming to you from the geographical center of the American theatre.
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Rap Master Oedipus
Oedipus the King Watch the Ancient Greek hero Oedipus tell his famous story in a rap song! Brought to you by http://literatureandhistory.com, home of the Literature and Histo...
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Here's a 1957 version of Oedipus the King from the Stratford Festival in Canada, directed by the great Tyrone Guthrie and using traditional Greek masks...
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The best version of Oedipus the King, in a translation by Don Taylor in 1986
Oedipus the King (BBC 1986) Was assigned to watch and write on this. Compiled from a playlist for easier viewing. I did the best I could in a couple hours splicing the pieces together n...
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The entire 1968 film version of OEDIPUS THE KING, with Christopher Plummer as King Oedipus and Orson Welles as Tiresias the Blind Seer...
Philip Saville - Oedipus Rex - VOST Version de la pièce de Sophocle tournée dans le théâtre grec de Dodone. Avec Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles et Donald Sutherland.
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"Well, what better way to bring Oedipus’s tragic story to life than to publicly humiliate him on The Jerry Springer Show?"
Oedipus Gets the Jerry Springer Treatment — GW Community School Here's a quick question for you: what’s your first association when hear the word “Oedipus?” A) an ancient Greek drama, B) Freudian theory, C) an epic family tragedy, or D) Jerry Springer? Most people will likely choose options A, B, or C. Oedipus the King is, after all, a trag
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A really terrific book about the original Greek play, by Ken Glazer.
Searching for Oedipus In Searching for Oedipus, attorney Ken Glazer recounts his decades-long quest to answer the Riddle of Oedipus: why Oedipus Rex, after 2,500 years, still wields such enormous power. Along the way he slices through the scholarly debate, laying bare the many ways this ancient masterpiece still speak...
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Long-Lost Horror-Comedy
King Oedipus is already having a bad day, and here comes some REALLY bad news...!
All Oedipus wants is to lift the curse that's made his city sick, broke, and pi**ed off, but all these prophecies keep getting in the way. Could it be true that Oedipus killed the last king without realizing it? Is it possible he's married to his own mother? Does his name really mean "swollen foot"? Maybe Tiresias the Blind Seer knows the answers. But does Oedipus really want to know...?
After shocking the music and theatre worlds by rediscovering Gilbert & Sullivan’s lost masterpiece The Zombies of Penzance in 2013, and then staging and publishing the controversial original opera, in 2018, now New Line Theatre artistic director Scott Miller has done it once again. This time, Miller has unearthed Gilbert & Sullivan’s even darker and funnier BLOODY KING OEDIPUS! (or PARDON ME, MUM!), an adult horror-comedy that no one even knew existed until now, based on Sophocles’ iconic Greek tragedy of murder, in**st, disfigurement, and su***de, which first debuted in 429 BC.
The legendary British team of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan together wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896. Or is it sixteen? After rewriting their original Zombies of Penzance at the insistence of producer Richard D’Oyly Carte, the team premiered The Pirates of Penzance in 1879. Until now, scholars believed that their next project was the pastoral satire Patience in 1881. But we now know that isn’t true. After the huge success of HMS Pinafore and Pirates, the team decided to tackle something a bit weightier. According to personal papers found with the manuscript, it was Gilbert who suggested three unlikely possibilities, Dante’s Inferno, the Book of Revelation, and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. The partners both agreed that Inferno and Armageddon would both pose substantial logistical challenges in staging, so they agreed to tackle Oedipus the King, set in Thebes, a Greek city-state in the 13th century BC.
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