“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago.
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The actor and author, on board for the company's June 6 performance, believes Oedipus has been unjustly maligned ("very unfair of Freud") and recalls working with Tilda Swinton in college.
Maybe they should just call it "Eddie.
The Company Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the Sophocles' classic OEDIPUS REX, running February 15-25 at the historic Temple Building Theater, 50 Liberty Pole Way, in Rochester.
Only the insensate among us can dwell on the Book of Job without feeling horror at the suffering this man endured as the result of a divine wager.
Do you see what you've done? Do we see what we've done? Taken on the micro or macro level, Oedipus Rex is a play that can shake an audience to the core – unsettling in its demonstration of just how .