Oedipus Complex

Sophocles meets Sigmund Freud. We all know the story–or think we do–of a young man who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. Sophocles’ monumental treatment of this theme has been a staple of world theatre for more than two thousand years. Now Frank Galati, Tony Award-winning director and adapter (The Grapes of Wrath), fuses Sophocles’ play with the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Jean-Paul Sartre in a bold and provocative re-telling of Greek mythology