Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Drama
Overview
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 as Oedipus Rex
- Claire Bloom as Jocasta
- John Gielgud as Tieresias
- John Shrapnel as Creon
- Cyril Cusack as Priest
- Michael Byrne as Chorus
- Ernest Clark as Chorus
- David Collings as Chorus
- Donald Eccles as Chorus
- Robert Eddison as Chorus