Oedipus and Tiresias (Nathaniel Justiniano and Tonyanna Borkovi) rehearsing for a site specific staged reading of Anthony Burgess’ adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus The King to be performed in the Fort Mason Chapel for the San Francisco International Art Festival and produced by the Museum of Performance and Design
Oedipus and Tiresias walk into a Japantown coffee shop…
TIRESIAS
This I know. This you do not know.
Your marriage is a sin. Your love is a sin.
Your bed is stained with sin.
OEDIPUS
Impunity- you think your blindness and age grant you
TIRESIAS
The truth grants it, not I, the mere
Bearer of the truth.