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Mon 12 Dec 2008Taking a cue from European scripts
THE ARTS:Ireland and the UK could learn a thing or two from the European theatre model, says Pan Pan's Gavin Quinn, as the company prepares for something of a homecoming tour, writes Sara Keating
"HELLO. MY NAME is Oedipus, and I think I've been unhappy for a very long time." That long time is more than 2,000 years, when he first turns up in Homer's Odyssey, killing his father, marrying his mother and spawning a cultural fascination with unconscious desire that still resonates today. And in Oedipus Loves You, Pan Pan Theatre's postmodern parody of psychoanalytic culture, the miserable legacy lives on.
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