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Oedipus at Fort Mason Chapel

The Museum of Performance + Design presents a special staged reading of Oedipus The King for the San Francisco International Arts Festival with Nathaniel Justiniano, Aleta Hayes, Val Sinkler, Tonyana Borkovi and directed by Jamie Lyons.

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A moving and vigorous adaptation of Sophocles’s classic text. The tragedy includes a language Burgess invented for the original 1972 production of the play at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.  Oedipus begins the piece as a passionate king, who has freed Thebes from the curse and riddle of the Sphinx.  Over the course of the tragedy Oedipus world falls apart. A new cancer appears and he is forced to save his people by rooting out the cause.

Oedipus, Fort Mason Chapel on May 27, 2017

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