NT : What's On : Productions : Oedipus

Oedipus

by Sophocles
in a new version by Frank McGuinness

God is on fire – his fever is plague…
All that was sweet is spilt and gone.

The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city. He consults the oracle and learns that he must root out the late king’s murderer. But his relentless interrogation of one man after another leads inexorably, and in the space of a single day, to his own savage conclusion.

You are who you are seeking to find.

Sophocles’ magnificent tragedy in an intense and raw new version by Frank McGuinness.

Ralph Fiennes takes the title role, with Alan Howard as Teiresias and Clare Higgins as Jocasta.

From 8 October 2008 to 4 January 2009. Advance tickets are sold out.

Day Seats available

An illustrated programme for Oedipus is on sale at £3 from the Bookshop and from the Olivier Bookstall from ushers at performance times. Read an extract and description of contents .

 

Cast credits:

Chorus : Derek Barnes

Understudy to Teiresias : Christopher Birch

Chorus : Patrick Brennan

Creon : Jasper Britton

Shepherd : Alfred Burke

Priest : David Burke

Chorus : Edward Clayton

Chorus : Sam Cox

Chorus : Russell Dixon

Oedipus : Ralph Fiennes

Chorus : Darren Fox

Chrous : Richard Freeman

Jocasta : Clare Higgins

Teiresias : Alan Howard

Jocasta (understudy) : Sioned Jones

The Messenger : Gwilym Lee

Chorus : Neil McCaul

Chorus : Paul McCleary

Chorus : Seymour Matthews

Chorus : Stanley Page

Chorus : Steven Page

Chorus : Christopher Saul

Chorus : David Shaw-Parker

Stranger from Corinth : Malcolm Storry

Chorus : Robert Willox

Production credits:

Director: Jonathan Kent

Designer: Paul Brown

Lighting Designer: Neil Austin

Music: Jonathan Dove

Music Director: Derek Barnes

Movement Director: Denni Sayers

Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis

photo (Ralph Fiennes) by Jillian Edelstein