Wyndham's Theatre

On Thursday, October 10 we attended a performance of Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre on Leicester Square. It's a great old theater built in 1898. This was a modern adaptation of Sophocles' play from ancient Greece, Oedipus Rex. 

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As the story begins, Oedipus, who was abandoned as an infant and raised by step-parents, has already been involved in an accident in which his father was killed (in the modern version, it's a car accident). He didn't know it was his father. Years later, he has already married his father's widow (his mother, but he didn't know it). She does not know he is her son. As the story unfolds, they both ultimately learn the nature of their relationship, with tragic results.

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Anyway, if you think that story is weird, you should see the theory that Sigmund Freud derived from it. Nevertheless, it was a great production with some fine acting.