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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Film / 1986

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Directed by Don Taylor
Drama

★ 4.5/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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 PenningtonOedipus Rex Claire BloomJocasta John GielgudTieresias John ShrapnelCreon Cyril CusackPriest Michael ByrneChorus Ernest ClarkChorus David CollingsChorus Donald EcclesChorus Robert EddisonChorus Clifford RoseChorus Alan RoweChorus
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Nigel StockChorus John WoodnuttChorus Norman RodwayCorinthian Messenger David WallerShepherd Gerard MurphyMessenger Cassie ShillingAntigone Kelly HuntleyIsmene Lincoln SaundersTieresias' Boy Richard TateTheban Citizen

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