The Bookshop Theatre present The
Godot Company in
Beckett
and the Greeks
Cockpit Theatre
Wednesday 21 October, 2009
7.30pm
Tickets £7 (£5 concessions)
Continuing the Mapping Beckett
season, this month for our second presentation we have concocted an
evening featuring a new recipe:
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
and excerpts from the works of Samuel Beckett examining the eternal
triangle of Mother, Father and Son in the light of one of the worlds
oldest and most enduring stories.
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“Few
Greek myths have permeated the popular culture as deeply as the story
of Oedipus. We might not be familiar with the whole saga of the house
of Labdacus, but we all know that Oedipus killed his father and slept
with his mother. These ghastly facts can certainly make us shiver, but
can the tragedy of Oedipus do more than simply horrify us?”
- Darian Leader,
psychoanalyst and author of Freud's
Footnotes (Faber & Faber 2000)
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“enough of my mother for the moment.”
- Samuel Beckett,
from “An Abandoned Work”
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Cast
includes Virginia Byron, Jim McManus, Oengus MacNamara & Peter
Marinker. As usual there will be a discussion in the bar after the
performance. We hope to see you on Wednesday 21st.
Regards,
Peter Marinker (Director,
Bookshop Theatre Company)
Dave Wybrow (Manager, Cockpit
Theatre)
