theatre minima

past productions

What She Knew

14 February 2010
International Culture Lab Avant-Yarde
workshop production

Directed by the author with Nick Fracaro
Performed by Gabriele Schafer

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 anothers body and the agony of moral criminality.

Text is now online at Midway journal.

Above: Gabriele Schafer as Jocasta in
What She Knew.