Oct 4, 2025
The Boy/The God and His Daughter review – Marina Carr’s majestic Theban double bill | Theatre
‘We are the new gods,” Oedipus, King of Thebes, declares in a moment of hubris. In a double-bill inspired by the cycle of myths about the cursed Oedipus (Frank Blake), his wife, Jocasta (Eileen Walsh), and their children, Marina Carr expands on her earlier reckonings with Greek tragedy. Drawing here on the Theban plays of Sophocles and Euripides, Carr gives her characters freedom to expand beyond…
