Oedipus Schmoedipus takes dozens of the great theatre classics, picks out the death scenes, mixes them together and hands them back to the people. Created by Australia’s silliest and smartest performance makers, this is clever theatre with an outrageous sense of humour.

Fed up with white men staging the deaths of white men in plays written by white men, the white ladies of post have pirated the classics to confront the great unknown.

Oedipus Schmoedipus is about death: real death, fake death, and the Western theatrical canon. It’s joyful and dark, stupid and smart, hilarious and confronting.

An ambitious epic and an intentionally impossible task, Oedipus Schmoedipus compiles all the death scenes ever written and will intertwine them with a Canberra cast of 25 volunteers. When it comes to engaging with communities, there’s nothing like it.

Post’s deep irreverence for the institution of theatre has amused, bemused and probably annoyed audiences for years.

Post and Intimate Spectacle
THE PLAYHOUSE 14 MARCH

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