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Title [The Theban plays]. Oedipus at Colonnus / [by Sophocles] ; [a new translation by Don Taylor] ; a BBC TV co-production in association with Bioscope Inc. ; producer, Louis Marks ; directed by Don Taylor
Published London, England : BBC Worldwide, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (131 minutes)
Summary Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone may be 2,500 years old, but can still grip and shock modern audiences
Notes Title from title screen (viewed October 01, 2021)
Credits Music composed and conducted by Derek Bourgeois ; lighting director, Clive Thomas ; make-up designer, Fran Needham ; costume designer, June Hudson ; designer, David Myerscough-Jones
Cast Anthony Quayle (Oedipus), Juliet Stevenson (Antigone), Paul Copley (Local man), Gwen Taylor (Ismene), Clive Francis (Theseus), John Shrapnel (Creon), Kenneth Haigh (Polynices), Michael N. Harbour (Messenger), Michael Shevelew (Theseus' attendant) ; music played by the Endymion Ensemble
Notes In English; translated from the original Ancient Greek
Subject Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama
SUBJECT Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) fast (OCoLC)fst01043940
Athens (Greece) -- Drama
Subject Greece -- Athens.
Genre/Form Drama.
Fiction television programs.
Television adaptations.
Fiction television programs.
Television adaptations.
Drama.
Fictions télévisées.
Adaptations télévisées.
Théâtre.
Form Streaming video
Author Taylor, Don, 1936-2003, director.
Marks, Louis, producer
Quayle, Anthony, 1913-1989, actor.
Stevenson, Juliet, actor
Taylor, Gwen, 1939- actor.
Haigh, Kenneth, 1929-2018, actor.
Television adaptation of (expression): Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus. English (Taylor)
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, production company.
Endymion Ensemble, instrumentalist.
Other Titles Theban plays of Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonnus