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The Boy/The God and His Daughter review " Marina Carr's majestic Theban double bill by Helen Meany

Abbey, DublinTwo new plays reimagine Sophocles and Euripides with lavish scale, mordant humour and fresh interrogation of power and prophecy 'We are the new gods," Oedipus, King of Thebes, declares in a moment of hubris. In a double-bill inspired by the cycle of myths about the cursed Oedipus (Frank Blake), his wife, Jocasta (Eileen Walsh), and their children, Marina Carr expands on her earlier reckonings with Greek …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:02am on October 4, 2025

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