Question

I have to write a skit, on Oedipus:the king, but after the tragedy, any place, any time, but must remain in contex with the theme as the original.
(we can have 3-5 people to perform this skit) its due Wed.

Answer 1

You could do a rather current event: A high government official keeping up the vision of finding weapons of mass destruction of Saddam Hussein, and as the hunt continues, the irony that the high government official invented the story and the belief in the first place. OF course, this is all fiction, based on fiction, with no intentional relation to real characters or events.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thom1456/Theater/015100.html

The central irony of Oedipus is that which he sought, was not that which he intended to reveal.