Secrets of the Birds

by Lynda Crawford

Full length. In the hours before the seer Tiresias is summoned to tell Oedipus who killed the former king (a disclosure that rains tragedy on Oedipus and his entire family), Tiresias’s lover, Ameinius, fearful for his partner’s life, tries to keep him from going with a charade that ends up tearing them apart. A prequel to the Oedipus trilogy.

Full length. In the hours before the seer Tiresias is summoned to tell Oedipus who killed the former king (a disclosure that rains tragedy on Oedipus and his entire family), Tiresias’s lover, Ameinius, fearful for his partner’s life, tries to keep him from going with a charade that ends up tearing them apart. A prequel to the Oedipus trilogy.

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Secrets of the Birds

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  • Emma Bilderback: Secrets of the Birds

    This piece is a heartfelt alternative canon to Sophocles and Aeschylus. It deals with modern themes of migration, xenophobia, and queerness in a way that feels organic within the world that has been created, while still being a recognizably ancient world.

    This piece is a heartfelt alternative canon to Sophocles and Aeschylus. It deals with modern themes of migration, xenophobia, and queerness in a way that feels organic within the world that has been created, while still being a recognizably ancient world.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Actors Studio Playwrights & Directors Unit, Year 2024
  • Type Reading, Organization HB Playwrights Forum, Year 2022
  • Type Reading, Organization HB Playwrights Forum, Year 2021

Awards

  • Samuel French Short Play Competition [20-minute version of the piece that I've since expanded to full length]
    Samuel French
    Finalist
    2006