Oedipus Journal 1:

At the beginning of the year the Tigard High School theatre three and four class took a field trip to Reed College to see a performance of Oedipus Rex with a supliment feature at the end of Oedipus the King. This performance was part of the Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon Festival. The most notable difference between the written play and this interpretation was that this performance started with a Greek setting but not in the meaning and intent of Sophocles. Oedipus was set in Japan to show the tradgedy in a more unique light. Another interesting interpretation was the choice to cast all of the actors with a male giving the story and events an extreme when you see all the roles cast as men. This factor is also more time period accurate because when the play was originally written there were no female actors. Along with the all male cast some actors used masks to signifie there change in character. This is also accurate to the traditional perfomance of Greek theatre. These masks also helped demonstrate the loss of induality as well as lack of importance a normal human being holds in comparison to one on the Gods who are so prominent in all Greek plays.