O?ACULE

<p><em>ORACULE</em> occurs at the intersection of poetry and theatre. Its characters inhabit a classical and cosmological world where psychic phenomena constantly threaten to impinge upon the arc of combat occurring between the women trapped within. Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche’s <em>The Birth of Tragedy</em>, the writings of Plato, the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and <em>The Odyssey</em>, <em>ORACULE</em> approaches self and identity through a fractal, performative lens, subverting Socratic dialogue. Through lyric expressions of dream, theatrical dialogue, the engagements of chorus, anti-chorus, and song, readers may pause to enter <em>ORACULE</em> before the inevitable exile: the result of such engagement is to be cast permanently from the world of reason.</p>