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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080130
Author:Charlotte Cripps

Theatre

OEDIPUS LOVES YOU Riverside Studios LONDON

If ever a dysfunctional family needed therapy, it's the one in Sophocles' and Seneca's Oedipus plays. So the Dublin-based company Pan Pan Theatre's raunchy Oedipus Loves You, based on and inspired by Sophocles and Seneca and the writings of Freud, is apt.

Oedipus Loves You is set not in the plague-ridden city of Thebes, but in an an aluminium house, designed by the sculptor Andrew Clancy, in modern suburbia. The play centres on Oedipus, who kills his father and marries his mother. The blind soothsayer Tiresias is now a psychoanalyst.

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