Square Talk/Apollo Arts production of Oedipus Rex

Scenes
0:00 Musical Interlude
2:41 Oedipus Entrance
4:00 Oedipus and Priest
8:44 Oedipus and Creon
12:35 Choral Ode 1
17:13 Oedipus Proclamation
22:11 Tiresias
33:00 Choral Ode 2
35:31 Creon and Oedipus argue
40:45 Iocasta's entrance
42:39 Oedipus and Iocasta
54:42 Choral Ode 3
57:01 Iocasta's Offering + Messenger from Corinth
1:00:41 Oedipus and Messenger from Corinth
1:08:30 Choral Ode 4
1:10:11 Laius's Shepard
1:15:01 Choral Ode 5
1:17:21 Messenger from Palace announcing Iocasta's death
1:21:50 Oedipus returns blind
1:26:53 Creon confronts Oedipus
1:29:46 Oedipus' daughters arrive
1:33:29 Chorus Epilogue
1:34:52 Credits

🎭 Square Talk, in association with Apollo Arts, production of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
🎭 Performed in the DaVinci Theatron in Northern California in 2018
🎭 With Michael Golding as King Oedipus and Mari Reeves as Iocaste
🎭 Directed by Nicolas Walker.

According to Aristotle, the play Oedipus Rex contains all the ingredients of the perfect tragedy. Oedipus, the protagonist, is of a high rank (a king’s son and soon to be a king himself), so, when his fall comes, it is extreme and complete; from the heights to the depths, from happiness to misery. And secondly, it is brought about through no apparent fault of his own. He flees his home and sets off a chain of events to escape a horrible oracle he has received that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother.

In his Poetics, Aristotle stated that a good tragedy will evoke pity and fear in its viewers, causing the viewers to experience catharsis, a process of transformation where one goes beyond the suffering and experiences a cleansing or purification of the emotions.

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