Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH

By: Julie Musbach Jan. 30, 2019

Get a first look below at Firehouse Theatre's OEDIPUS / A GOSPEL MYTH.

OEDIPUS REX is Sophocles' masterwork from 429 B.C.and is considered by many to be one of the greatest plays ever written. Ambition, pride, fate, and free will are the ingredients of this tragedy of epic proportions.

Firehouse's OEDIPUS / A GOSPEL MYTH, which is part of the Acts of Faith Festival, is set in an African American southern church in the 1920's as the preacher, choir, and members of the congregation perform this ancient myth to try to reconcile the contradictions between a world blessed by God's grace and our experience of incomprehensible human suffering.

Photo Credit: Bill Sigafoos

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
Jeremy V Morris

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
DL Hopkins, Jeremy V Morris

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
DL Hopkins, Miles Hopkins, Toney Q. Cobb, Jeremy V Morris

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
DL Hopkins, Patricia Alli

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
Shalandis Wheeler Smith, Shantell Dunnaville, Shalimar Hickman Fields, Keaton Hillman, DL Hopkins, Jeremy V Morris

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
Shalandis Wheeler Smith, Shantell Dunnaville, Shalimar Hickman Fields, Jeremy V Morrs

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
Patricia Alli, DL Hopkins

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
J Ron Fleming Jr, DL Hopkins

Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's OEDIPUS/A GOSPEL MYTH Image
Keaton Hillman

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