Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Directed by Don Taylor

Written by Sophocles, Don Taylor

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

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

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Donald Eccles

Chorus

Robert Eddison

Chorus

Clifford Rose

Chorus

Alan Rowe

Chorus