Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)

Drama

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.

Cast

Oedipus Rex
Michael Pennington
Jocasta
Claire Bloom
Chorus
Clifford Rose
Chorus
A Alan Rowe
Chorus
Nigel Stock
Chorus
John Woodnutt
Corinthian Messenger
Norman Rodway
Shepherd
D David Waller
Messenger
Gerard Murphy
Antigone
C Cassie Shilling
Ismene
K Kelly Huntley
Tieresias' Boy
L Lincoln Saunders
Tieresias
John Gielgud
Creon
John Shrapnel
Priest
Cyril Cusack
Chorus
Michael Byrne
Chorus
Ernest Clark
Chorus
David Collings
Chorus
Donald Eccles
Chorus
R Robert Eddison

Crew

Director
D Don Taylor
Writer
D Don Taylor
Producer
L Louis Marks
Music
D Derek Bourgeois
Editor
D David Hambelton
Production Design
D David Myerscough-Jones
Costume Design
J Jane Hudson
Theatre Play
Sophocles