Wabash College: Theater Oedipus in America Crawfordsville, Indiana

Theater

Curriculum

Faculty & Staff

History

Productions

- Pseudolus

- American Buffalo

- Agamemnon

- Much Ado About Nothing

- R.U.R.

- A Moon for the
Misbegotten

- The Tempest

- The Bogus Bride

- Aurelie's Waltz

- Talley's Folly

- The Misanthrope
(Moliere)

- The Mandrake

- A Doll's House

- The Real Inspector
Hound

- Galileo

- The Physicists

- The Runner Stumbles

- Baby Grand

- Twelfth Night

- Antigone

- A Streetcar Named
Desire

- The Long Voyage Home

- Indians

- The Good Woman of
Setzuan

- True West

- Eden Creek

- The School for Wives

- Elbow Rooms

- Mrs Warren's Profession

- Fortune and Men's Eyes

- Loot

- Runaways

- Tom Jones

- Waiting for Godot

- A Half-Remembered
Dream: Narcissa
Whitman's Story

- The Foreigner

- Julius Caesar

- Bus Stop

- Dapple Gray

- Holding Talks

- Of Mice and Men

- Marat/Sade

- Biloxi Blues

- Oedipus Rex

- Accidental Death of an
Anarchist

- Breaking the Code

- Greater Tuna

- Inherit the Wind

- Orphans

- The Day Room

- Voice of the Prairie

- The Merchant of Venice

- El Salvador

- The Battle of
Shallowford

- Tartuffe

- Miss Evers' Boys

- As You Like It

- Ah Wilderness!

- Glengarry Glen Ross

- Scratch

- Angels in America+
Part One: Millennium
Approaches

- The Visit

- Lysistrata

- A View from the Bridge

- Suburbia

- Charley's Aunt

- The Grapes of Wrath

- The Notebook of Trigorin

- The Boys Next Door

- Gross Indecency

- Twelve Angry Men

- Othello

- One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest

- Deadfish Idaho

- Mister Roberts

- Equus

- The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare
(Abridged)

- The Time of Your Life

- The Newton Projects

- American Buffalo

- Oedipus in America

- The Comedy of Errors

- The Man Who Came to
Dinner

- The Illusion

- The Lord of the Flies

- 1776

- The Vaudevilles of
Chekhov

- This Is Our Youth

- The Andersonville Trial

- The Vietnamization of
New Jersey

- Churchill at Eight

- The Braggart Soldier

- The Elephant Man

- Side Man

- Two Gentlemen of
Verona

- Never the Sinner

- Glengarry Glen Ross

- A Flea in Her Ear

Facilities

Research

Oedipus in America

February 19–22, 2003
A play by Michael Abbott '85
Based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and material from other sources

Production Staff
Director: Michael Abbott '85
Scenic Designer: James Gross
Lighting Designer: Marcus Doshi ‘97
Costume Designer: Laura Conners
Stage Manager: Justin Dirig '03
Asst. Stage Manager: Donald Claxon '06

Cast List
Narrator: Aaron Parks '03
Chorus 1: Denis Farr '06
Chorus 2: Johnny Warren '03
Chorus 3: Chris Laguna
Chorus 4: Janathan Grandoit '06
Oedipus: Reynaldo Pacheco '06
G.W. Bush: Brandon Alstott
God: Josh Wilson '03

Production Assistance
Lightboard Operator: George Milberger '03
Soundboard Operator: Alpha Newberry '05
Followspots: Tyler Carr '06, Danny Lippert
Poster Design: Michael Bricker '04

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is regarded by many as the seminal drama of western civilization. In this original adaptation by Wabash Associate Professor of Theater Michael Abbott, Oedipus is once again put to the test. Does Oedipus deserve his fate? Is he a tragic hero? Can he, in fact, be considered a modern man?

This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).

Program Note

Photo Album

February 19–22, 2003