If you feel that the Oedipus myth starts with the riddle and ends with the cathartic revelation, that’s just the beginning: here Oedipus (Ramon de Ocampo) blinds himself with Jocasta’s (Rhonda Aldrich) earrings barely an hour into a nearly three-hour evening. It’s not even the climax before the intermission, merely the triggering tragedy for generations of accursed fates, an epic night of hubris, blindness and downfall that nevertheless manages to rally, in Kenneth Cavander’s decidedly reupholstered version, to a hopeful conclusion -- so long as one neglects to remember the succeeding millenia of the masculine destructive pursuit of power. It
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- 6/25/2014
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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