Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986Drama111 mins
★★★★★

Plot

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.... read more

  • Don Taylor

    Director

  • Don Taylor

    Writer

  • Sophocles

    Theatre Play

  • David Hambelton

    Editor

  • Michael Pennington

    Oedipus Rex

  • Claire Bloom

    Jocasta

  • John Gielgud

    Tieresias

  • John Shrapnel

    Creon

  • Cyril Cusack

    Priest

  • Michael Byrne

    Chorus

  • Ernest Clark

    Chorus

  • David Collings

    Chorus

  • Donald Eccles

    Chorus

  • Robert Eddison

    Chorus

  • Clifford Rose

    Chorus

  • Alan Rowe

    Chorus

  • Nigel Stock

    Chorus

  • John Woodnutt

    Chorus

  • Norman Rodway

    Corinthian Messenger

  • David Waller

    Shepherd

  • Gerard Murphy

    Messenger

  • Cassie Shilling

    Antigone

  • Kelly Huntley

    Ismene

  • Lincoln Saunders

    Tieresias' Boy

    • Runtime

    111 minutes

    Released

    1986-09-16

    Languages

    English

    Studios

    BBC

    Sound

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Music

    • Updated

    101 days ago

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