The Gospel at Colonus

Inspired by the faith at the heart of African-American Christianity, Lee Breuer and composer Bob Telson have transformed the Oedipus story.

Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.

'I've been in a lotta shows in my life, and I've thought a lot of 'em were pretty good, but this is a masterpiece' - Morgan Freeman