Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

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.

• Don TaylorDirector
• Don TaylorWriter

• 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