‘We are the new gods,” Oedipus, King of Thebes, declares in a moment of hubris. In a double-bill inspired by the cycle of myths about the cursed Oedipus (Frank Blake), his wife, Jocasta (Eileen Walsh), and their children, Marina Carr expands on her earlier reckonings with Greek tragedy.
Drawing here on the Theban plays of Sophocles and Euripides, Carr gives her characters freedom to expand beyond those sources, testing the limits of received ideas about morality, punishment and above all, the existence of powers – god or gods – beyond this world.
