If you are putting on a Greek play and are puzzling about how to get bums on seats, take a look at this:

So, you think your family is bad? Having some trouble recovering from whatever low-level trauma they've inflicted this year?

The Gaslight Theatre Company has just the thing to make your clan look like the Cleavers in comparison. Under the direction of Justin Costello, Gaslight is preparing to tell a little family tale full of lies, deceit, incest, murder and mutilation. But before you call the morality police with tales of the Theater company's sordid behavior, you should know that this dysfunctional family soap opera is a nearly 2,500 year old classic - Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex."

It's a multi-media production, too, with "TV screens, tribal chants, camera flashes, reporters and special effects. Costello has chosen to use both traditional Greek masks and modern day business suits. The show is set on a two-part stage, featuring both the columned grandeur of a palace and the decay outside the palace walls."

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