Oedipus El Rey Review: Brutal Murder, Sensuous Incest in El Barrio
That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is fated and " 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex " familiar. But Luis Alfaro's modern adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set in the Chicano barrio of South Central Los Angeles, turns it into something new and shocking, bringing on stage what the Greek playwright […]