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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

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Calorie Rating: 156
Released: 1986-09-16
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Studios: BBC,


Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.

Director / Directors

Don Taylor
Director


Cast

Michael Pennington
Character: Oedipus Rex
Claire Bloom
Character: Jocasta
John Gielgud
Character: Tieresias

John Shrapnel
Character: Creon
Cyril Cusack
Character: Priest
Michael Byrne
Character: Chorus

Ernest Clark
Character: Chorus
David Collings
Character: Chorus
Donald Eccles
Character: Chorus

Robert Eddison
Character: Chorus
Clifford Rose
Character: Chorus
Alan Rowe
Character: Chorus

Nigel Stock
Character: Chorus
John Woodnutt
Character: Chorus
Norman Rodway
Character: Corinthian Messenger

David Waller
Character: Shepherd
Gerard Murphy
Character: Messenger
Cassie Shilling
Character: Antigone

Kelly Huntley
Character: Ismene
Lincoln Saunders
Character: Tieresias' Boy


Production and Crew

Louis Marks
Producer
David Myerscough-Jones
Production Design

Jane Hudson
Costume Design

Sophocles
Theatre Play