15 Nov 1992
Byron: Ballad for a Daemon
Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.
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 Pennington Oedipus Rex
Claire Bloom Jocasta
John Gielgud Tieresias
John Shrapnel Creon
Cyril Cusack Priest
Michael Byrne Chorus
Ernest Clark Chorus
David Collings Chorus
Donald Eccles Chorus
Robert Eddison Chorus
Clifford Rose Chorus
Alan Rowe Chorus
Nigel Stock Chorus
John Woodnutt Chorus
Norman Rodway Corinthian Messenger
David Waller Shepherd
Gerard Murphy Messenger
Cassie Shilling Antigone
Kelly Huntley Ismene
Lincoln Saunders Tieresias' Boy
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