Even Though You Know the Ending, You'll Still Cry - Luis Alfaro rewrites 'Oedipus Rex' for our multicultural era
Luis Alfaro rewrites Oedipus Rex for our multicultural era---In Oedipus El Rey, Luis Alfaro's contemporary take on Sophocles's tragedy of patricide and incest currently playing at the Public Theater, the titular character is a recently released convict who finds himself in a "kingdom" of drugs, violence, and Chicano gangs in L.A. And Jocasta? Abused by her husband, she is a lonely woman of deep faith who finds love w…