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Kumidiya Udib: Inta Elli Qatalt al-Wahsh [The Comedy of Oedipus: You Who Killed the Beast!] (1970)

APGRD id
5881
Start date
1970
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
Arabic
Associated ancient works
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Scripts:
Kumidiya Udib: Inta Elli Qatalt al-Wahsh [The Comedy of Oedipus: You Who Killed the Beast!] (Ali Salim)
APGRD Notes
A satirical adaptation of Oedipus Tyrannus drawing on "Nasser's lionization before the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Egypt's humiliation afterwards". The date of this production needs verification: Wrigley in Dionysus since 69 dates it to 1970 (p.382); but Carlson cites 1979 (p.9).
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/5881
Related Content
Person Credit Notes
Galal El-Sharqawi Director
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
El-Hakim Theatre (Cairo, Muḩāfaz̧at al Qāhirah, Egypt) Egypt
Title Year Format Content
Email from Fiona Macintosh to Amanda Wrigley Print-out email correspondence
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
The Arab Oedipus: Four Plays from Egypt and Syria Walid Ikhlasi, Ali Salim, Ali Ahmad Bakathir, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Marvin Carlson Book
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium Katharine Worth, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Kathleen Riley, Pantelis Michelakis, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Helene Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, Peter G. McC. Brown, David Wiles, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) Book