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Mother Knows Best.(Review)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20010301
Author:Wilder, Jesse Bryant

at last, the Oedipus myth with a feminist slant! Jocasta, the love interest in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, has stepped out of the mythological shadows and taken center stage in Sandra Perlman's Jocasta, premiering this month at the Cleveland Play House.

In Sophocles' play, Oedipus's wife is old enough to be, well, his mother. But in Perlman's version of the tale, the queen is still in her prime (she married her first husband, Laius, at 14). Perlman-a member of the CPH Playwrights Unit--begins her play on the eve of Jocasta's unwitting wedding to her son, a part of the story ...

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