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OEDIPUS AT PALM SPRINGS

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20050810
Author:© McNulty, CharlÃ s

OEDIPUS AT PALM SPRINGS

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A lesbian reworking of Sophocles turns a classic into a complex

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist, an expert problem solver, tries to uncover the source of his city's plague and ends up confronting the horror of his own identity. The strange and indelible parable, haunted by the Freudian goblins of incest and parricide, measures the gap between humanity's proud estimation of itself and the state of blind, existential wandering that is our inescapable lot. In the Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus at Palm ...

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