Seneca's Oedipus (2006) - Akropolis Performance Lab

“Nothing can escape the plague. It fastens on everybody.”

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The natural and supernatural worlds collide in Seneca’s version of the Oedipus story. With plague raging outside, the people of Thebes gather in the royal house for refuge from the terror paralyzing their society. There, they witness Oedipus who, determined to rid his land of the plague just as he previously rid it of the Sphinx, learns that the plague will continue until his predecessor’s murder is avenged and the murderer banished. Oedipus’s quest for knowledge and truth restores prosperity to his people with devastating consequences.

Into Seneca’s telling, Akropolis weaves Latin meditations on fate culled from the Carmina Burana Codex and set to luminous, haunting polyphonic music inspired by the traditional songs of Ukraine, Macedonia, and Russia and devised by Zhenya Lavy.

ADAPTER & DIRECTOR: Joseph Lavy
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Zhenya Lavy

CAST:

Joseph Lavy
Zhenya Lavy
Holly Fowers
Andrew Loviska
Margaretta Lantz
Liz Erber

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Zhenya Lavy
PHOTOGRAPHY: Julia Salamonik
VIDEOGRAPHY: Ryan Brown

Director’s Notes | Oedipus (2006)

LOCATION: The Garden House: Headquarters of the Washington State Federation of Garden Clubs, located in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. Originally built on a different site for E.A. Turner in 1883, a Mr. Koepf bought it, moved it to its present site in 1906, and remodeled it from Italian villa style to Queen Anne style.
See exterior photo taken during the year after this production at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_Beacon_Hill_-_2336_15th_S_-_01.jpg.

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Seneca’s Oedipus (2006)