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Sophocles update makes play's scandal relatable

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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20071009
Author:Prokosh, Kevin

By Kevin Prokosh

WHILE reading the 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, Matthew TenBruggencate was struck by how the king's downfall paralleled the spectacular public humiliations of televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart in the late '80s.

"Oedipus is a man who doesn't know himself and projects an image of being angelic and infallible," says TenBruggencate, who is directing the Theatre by the River production opening tonight at Augustine United Church on River Avenue.

"It made me think of religious leaders like Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Ted Haggard, who denied they were capable of ...

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