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.
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.