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Oedipus: Sex With Mum Was Blinding at BAM (September 25)

Sophocles’ classic tragedy is getting a makeover in this opera, which uses emerging neuroscience technology to tell its story. Writer and director Elli Papakonstantinou worked with artists and scientists to build this innovative theatrical experience in which the audience becomes the actual chorus of the opera. Papakonstantinou cast an all-female ensemble of opera and jazz vocalists to perform in the Oedipus Rex adaptation, and employs both ancient myth and pop culture to reexamine gender and showcase the long history of community in political performance.