Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (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.
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Cast
Michael Pennington
as Oedipus Rex
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was a British director and actor who, together with director Michael Bogdanov, founded the English Shakespeare Company. Although primarily...
Claire Bloom
as Jocasta
Patricia Claire Bloom (born February 15, 1931) is a retired English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy award as well as nominatio...
John Gielgud
as Tieresias
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH, was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally e...
John Shrapnel
as Creon
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal Nat...
Cyril Cusack
as Priest
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyr...
Michael Byrne
as Chorus
Michael Byrne was a British actor sometimes cast as Nazis such as Colonel Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Major Schroeder in Force 10 from Navarone, Reinhard Beck in The Scarlet and the B...
Director
Don Taylor
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