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Oedipus Apparatus

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Collaborators

Performing Artists

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Cara Barresi: Artemis
Will Bonfiglio: Creon
Maggie Conroy: Jocasta
Mitch Eagles: Oedipus
Michael Cassidy Flynn: Dr. Freud
Alicen Moser: Antigone
Carl Overly, Jr.: Tiresias
Ellie Schwetye: Sphinx
Joe Taylor: Apollo
Rachel Tibbetts: Athena/Priestess

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Production Team

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Deb Cashion: Set Decoration & Props

Lucy Cashion: Director & Playwright

Kristin Cassidy: Set Design, Decoration & Props
Mason Hunt: Assistant Stage Manager

Meredith LaBounty: Costume Design

Ben Lewis: Lighting Design
Joe Taylor: Composer

Wilson Webel: Stage Manager
Mark Wilson: Scenic Design

Production History

2017 September 12: in SIUE's Xfest at the Metcalf Student Experimental Theater 

2017 April 21-30: Union Avenue Church for West End Players Guild

Press & Recognition

2018 St. Louis Theatre Circle Award nomination - Outstanding New Play

2018 St. Louis Theatre Circle Award nomination - Outstanding Set Design, Kristin Cassidy

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Judith Newmark, "West End Players Guild stages an imaginative 'Oedipus'" in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

Michelle Kenyon, "'Oedipus Apparatus' Is a Fascinating Experiment at West End Players Guild" in Snoop's Theatre Thoughts

 

Tina Farmer, "The Tenaciously curious 'Oedipus Apparatus' is part machine, part science, and an all-together compelling conundrum" in KDHX
 

Chuck Lavazzi in On STL

 

Steve Allen, "'Oedipus Apparatus' Brings Modern Concepts To Ancient Story At WEPG" in Stage Door St. Louis

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Paul Friswold, "Oedipus Apparatus Is Too Much of a Not-Quite Good Thing" in Riverfront Times

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Richard Green in Talkin' Broadway

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Mark Bretz, "Much to Admire but Also Refine with 'Oedipus Apparatus'" in Ladue News


Gerry Kowarsky and Bob Wilcox on Two on the Aisle

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