Word: oedipus
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Idler, the Radcliffe Dramatic Club, takes a pioneering step in presenting its double bill, "The Tinker's Wedding" and "Oedipus Rex" tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Agassiz Theatre. The first, a comedy by the Irish playwright, J. M. Synge, is having its American premiere with this performance...
...Yeats translation of "Oedipus" has rarely been produced in this country. Idler precedes a coming "Oedipus" production by the Old Vie in New York with Lawrence Olivier...
Rounding out 21 years on the boards, the Idler Dramatic Society will celebrate its anniversity with a production of Yeats' "Oedipus...
When after five weeks of rehearsal, the two plays are presented at Brattle Hall, Henry P. Robbins '48 will appear as Oedipus and E. Edmond Ayres 8th, '48, will take the role of Creon...
...written by Sophocles, the play tells the story of Oedipus' daughter Antigone, whose two brothers kill each other in a quarrel over who shall succeed their dead father. When Creon, Antigone's uncle, takes the throne, he issues his edict that one of the brothers must lie unburied, as a lesson that the law must be enforced. Protesting this indignity, Antigone twice attempts to bury the body. Her efforts fail, she is caught and condemned to death, finally commits suicide...