The adjectives "pretentious" and "silly" are among the worst that can be applied to a play. Unfortunately, both can be attached to Craig Wright's Blind, now inviting unintentional laughs at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Here, Wright appropriates the ancient tragedy Oedipus Rex to make a few pressing comments on the devastating effects of entrenched denial. One only wishes he did this in a less ludicrous way.




It's Wright's notion to update Sophocles' play to the present so that Oedipus (Seth Numrich) can -- in one narrative innovation -- get out his Smartphone and text erstwhile Thebes ruler Creon. The furious Oedipus does this on a red-and-black Takeshi Kata set looking like[...]