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.

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Michael PenningtonOedipus Rex

Claire BloomJocasta

John GielgudTieresias

John ShrapnelCreon

Cyril CusackPriest

Michael ByrneChorus

Ernest ClarkChorus

David CollingsChorus