C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleThursday through Saturday evenings, June 9-11, 2005, 8 p.m.
Velocity dance space, 915 E. Pine, 2nd floor, Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Tickets $20 or $15 (Alliance/COR/Jung Society members; students)
available at the door or through Brown Paper Tickets
at 1-800-838 3006 or www.BrownPaperTickets.com
Sophocles’ last drama, written at the very end of his life, presents the aged Oedipus at the very end of his
own life, taking refuge in the grove of the Furies near Athens and called by the gods among thunder and
lightning to disappear into the underworld. His emaciated, blind body will, it is said, confer a blessing on
the place it is buried. And what of those he leaves behind? Oedipus’ two daughters, who have given their
lives to his service, are devastated with grief. His sons, whom he curses, will kill one another battling for
the throne of Thebes.
Oedipus at Colonus raises questions crucial to our work as clinicians: To what extent are we to blame for our fate? How do we make meaning of a life of suffering? What legacy do we leave to our children? To the larger world?
Like Oedipus Rex last year, Oedipus at Colonus will be produced by a group of local clinicians this spring. Robert Bergman will play Oedipus and Rikki Ricard will play Antigone, Kris Wheeler will choreograph the dance/movement, and Paul Prappas has once again composed original music. The three public performances, June 9–11, are timed to coincide with the American Psychoanalytic Association’s meetings in Seattle.
The production is a project of the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study’s Committee on the Arts & Psychoanalysis and is co-sponsored by COR NWFDC. For further information contact Shierry Nicholsen at 206 328 8437.
Updated: 6 April, 2005
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