Abbey theatre, DublinWayne Jordan's production unfolds in a frightened village with a flawed leader, where everyone refuses to see the blindingly obvious"How terrible to see the truth," says Tiresias. Indeed. But how much more terrible to refuse to see it. In Wayne Jordan's Thebes, everyone is turning a blind eye to the obvious. Jordan's new version of the tragedy, about the king who runs but cannot hide from his fat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM on October 6, 2015