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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

4.5 111 mins Drama   1986
BBC  
Director(s): Don Taylor

Release Date: 16 Tue, Sep 1986

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.

Casts of Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

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

Clifford Rose

as Chorus

Alan Rowe

as Chorus

Nigel Stock

as Chorus

John Woodnutt

as Chorus

Norman Rodway

as Corinthian Messenger

David Waller

as Shepherd

Gerard Murphy

as Messenger

Cassie Shilling

as Antigone

Kelly Huntley

as Ismene

Lincoln Saunders

as Tieresias' Boy

Richard Tate

as Theban Citizen

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