Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
20 %|Sep 16, 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.
Featured Crew
Sophocles
Theatre Play
David Myerscough-Jones
Production Design
Jane Hudson
Costume Design
Derek Bourgeois
Music
Don Taylor
Director
Louis Marks
Producer
David Hambelton
Editor
Don Taylor
Writer
Cast
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