Theban Plays: Oedipus the King(1986)

🎬111 min
📅1986-09-16
🎭Drama
⭐2.0/10

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.

Production

BBC

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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

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