Word: haemon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play the daughters are teen-agers or older, both articulate judges of their parents. Antigone is a haughty spitfire, Ismene a dutiful but skeptical daughter. Unlike Sophocles, Sloan includes the incestuous pair's son Polynices and implies a homosexual relationship with Jocasta's nephew Haemon. A very up-to-date household, indeed. When Oedipus is bent on throttling Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs him to stop, calling out "Oedipus, I am your mother-obey me!" The irony, and the insight, of Sloan's version of the myth is that Oedipus has deeply known it all along...