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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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'What if Oedipus lived next door? What if the whole street knew what he’d been up to with his own mother, because of the word daubed in fluorescent letters on his garage door?

'Queensland Premier’s Drama Award winner Daniel Evans brings the drama and horror of an Ancient Greek myth to the sleepy cul-de-sacs of modern Australian disturbia in this wild, wonderful ride spinning off from Sophocles’ 2500-year-old Theban plays. Evans (The China Incident, I Want to Know What Love Is, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne) shines a blacklight into the bedrooms and basements of the most infamous family in mythology by reimagining them as the unseen but most gossiped-about family on the block.

'In this dark and savagely funny play we’re led by a chorus of quirky characters into the secret, tragic, desperate lives of a family cursed to be the centre of attention. Evans asks what devils lurk in our own backyards? How do tight-knit communities cope with unspeakable tragedy? How do we point the finger when there’s nowhere to lay the blame? And who ends up playing the monster?

'Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is the story of a tragedy no one saw coming, but everyone wants to talk about.' (Production summary)

Production Details

  • Presented by the Queensland Theatre Company and Queensland Government. Performed 23 May - 13 June 2015 at Bille Brown Studio, QTC.

    Director: Jason Klawein.

    Lighting Designer: Daniel Anderson.

    Cast includes Emily Burton and Toby Martinon.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2015
    • Fortitude Valley, Fortitude Valley - New Farm area, Brisbane - North East, Brisbane, Queensland,: Playlab , 2015 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781925338249

Works about this Work

Young Cast Shines in Ancient Tragedy Nathanael Cooper , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 June 2015; (p. 46)

— Review of Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore Daniel Evans , 2015 single work drama
A Cavalcade of Cliches, Self-conscious and Contrived, This Oedipus Is No Rex James Harper , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 2 June 2015; (p. 14)

— Review of Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore Daniel Evans , 2015 single work drama
A Cavalcade of Cliches, Self-conscious and Contrived, This Oedipus Is No Rex James Harper , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 2 June 2015; (p. 14)

— Review of Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore Daniel Evans , 2015 single work drama
Young Cast Shines in Ancient Tragedy Nathanael Cooper , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 June 2015; (p. 46)

— Review of Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore Daniel Evans , 2015 single work drama
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