Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
A Classical Tragedy Reinvented: Oedipus in the L.A. Barrio
Playwright Luis Alfaro has bravely taken the story of Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’ and reimagined it in contemporary Southern California’s Chicano culture. His Oedipus is born not in Thebes but in Los Angeles, and instead of coming of age in the royal household of Corinth, he learns his trade in Kern County’s California State Prison . . .
Read MoreEssay: 2012 Not a Great Theatre Year
Let’s face it. 2012 was by no means a great theatre year. Even so, there was good work that went on in San Diego and elsewhere, despite a disappointing overall result.
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