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 Pennington
Oedipus Rex
Claire Bloom
Jocasta
John Gielgud
Tieresias
John Shrapnel
Creon
Cyril Cusack
Priest
Michael Byrne
Chorus
Ernest Clark
David Collings
Donald Eccles
Robert Eddison
Clifford Rose
Alan Rowe
Nigel Stock
John Woodnutt
Norman Rodway
Corinthian Messenger
David Waller
Shepherd
Gerard Murphy
Messenger
Cassie Shilling
Antigone
Kelly Huntley
Ismene
Lincoln Saunders
Tieresias' Boy
Richard Tate
Theban Citizen
Don Taylor
Director, Writer
Louis Marks
Producer
Nov 13, 2020
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