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Oedipus at Colonus (1986)

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Film details

Featuring

Anthony Quayle John Shrapnel Juliet Stevenson
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1986
Type

Television
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Play by Sophocles, adapted by Don Taylor. Oedipus now a blind old man and an outcast, wanders through Greece guided by his daughter Antigone. His hopes for peace are shattered by conflict between his t wo sons, and war between Thebes and Athens.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - cast member
    
    Anthony Quayle
  - cast member
    
    John Shrapnel
  - cast member
    
    Juliet Stevenson
  - cast member
    
    Gwen Taylor
  - cast member
    
    Kenneth Haigh
  - cast member
    
    Paul Copley
  - cast member
    
    Clive Francis
  - cast member
    
    Michael N. Harbour
  - cast member
    
    David Belcher
  - cast member
    
    Andrew Burt
  - cast member
    
    John Gabriel
  - cast member
    
    Christopher Hancock
  - cast member
    
    Ian Hogg
  - cast member
    
    Edward Jewesbury
  - cast member
    
    Trevor Peacock
  - cast member
    
    Bryan Pringle
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Don Taylor
  - Production Company
    
    BBC
  - Producer
    
    Louis Marks
  - Original play
    
    Sophocles
  - Costumes
    
    June Hudson
  - Music
    
    Derek Bourgeois
  - Music
    
    The Endymion Ensemble
  - Translator
    
    Don Taylor

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