theatre minima : upcoming productions : what she knew

Drawing on the Sophoclean and Senecan versions of the Oedipus story, George Hunka's What She Knew is a contemporary meditation on the role Jocasta plays in the tragedy: a woman whose willful participation in Oedipus' guilt reveals an extraordinary capacity for erotic and sexual transgression as a means to freedom, as an avenue to outwit time, place and her own desiring and desirous body. She strides through centuries, balancing between the ecstasy of loss in another's body and the agony of moral criminality.

This marks the first formal theatrical production of the theatre minima company. What She Knew was first produced in a staged reading in February 2010 as part of the International Culture Lab's Avant-Yarde series.

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Workshop text is online at Midway journal.

Above: Gabriele Schafer as Jocasta in
the February 2010 workshop production of
What She Knew.