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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1986 · Don Taylor · 111 min

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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.

Michael PenningtonOedipus Rex

Claire BloomJocasta

John GielgudTieresias

John ShrapnelCreon

Cyril CusackPriest

Michael ByrneChorus

Ernest ClarkChorus

David CollingsChorus DDonald EcclesChorus

Robert EddisonChorus

Clifford RoseChorus

Alan RoweChorus

Nigel StockChorus

John WoodnuttChorus

Norman RodwayCorinthian Messenger

Cast

Michael PenningtonOedipus Rex

Claire BloomJocasta

John GielgudTieresias

John ShrapnelCreon

Cyril CusackPriest

Michael ByrneChorus

Ernest ClarkChorus

David CollingsChorus DDonald EcclesChorus

Robert EddisonChorus

Clifford RoseChorus

Alan RoweChorus

Nigel StockChorus

John WoodnuttChorus

Norman RodwayCorinthian Messenger

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