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BLOODY KING OEDIPUS!

UNPRODUCED Book and Lyrics by Scott Miller & W.S. Gilbert Music by Arthur Sullivan & John Gerdes New Line Theatre presented a public reading, Jan. 6, 2020 at the Marcelle Theater, St. Louis http://www.newlinetheatre.com/oedipus-reading.html SYNOPSIS King Oedipus is already having a bad day, and here comes some REALLY bad news! All Oedipus wants is to lift the curse that's made his city sick, broke, and pissed off, but all these prophecies keep getting in the way. Could it be true that Oedipus killed the last king without realizing it? Is it possible he's married to his own mother? Does his name really mean "swollen foot"? Maybe Tiresias the Blind Seer knows the answers. But does Oedipus really want to know...? After shocking the music and theatre worlds by rediscovering Gilbert & Sullivan’s lost masterpiece The Zombies of Penzance in 2013, and then staging and publishing the controversial original opera, in 2018, now New Line Theatre artistic