Oedipus Tyrannus
1965

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS was performed in 1965.

The text and translation used from 1920 was reprinted to be sold to the audience. 252-68, 655-68, 1313-28, 1337-48, 1369-90, 1489-1502 were cut. The production photographs were taken by Colin Godman.

Cast

  • Oedipus: Malcolm Hardman
  • Priest of Zeus: Ian McAuslan
  • Creon: Michael Kitchener
  • Teiresias: John Saumarez Smith
  • Jocasta: Clare Ballantyne
  • First messenger: Richard Crane
  • Shepherd: Andrew Burns
  • Second messenger: John Byrne
  • Antigone: Lucy Stubbings / Helen Richardson
  • Ismene: Lucy Barwell / Elisabeth Green
  • Teiresias’ attendant: James Kennedy / Edmund Brookes
  • Chorus speakers: Philip Shannon, Nicolas Jowett, Teresa Harington Smith, Jennifer Desoutter
  • Chorus soloists: Rhiannon Goldthorpe, Andrea Baron, Alastair Thompson, Peter Burtt-Jones
  • Chorus: David Calvert-Smith, Robert Carnwath, Robert Fish, Thomas King, Peter Robson, Christopher Underwood, Roger Vignoles, Richard Witt
  • Citizens and attendants: Ian Cooper, Brian Elliot, Nigel Gow-Smith, Roger Leech, James Marshall, John Ray, Philip Rubery, Nigel Wicks, Carolyn Ditcher, Ingrid Fairbairn-Smith, Mary Falk, Mary Hoffman, Jennifer Hollis, Jane Hinckley, Christine MacFarlane, Judith Murray, Eugenie Turton, Veronica Stebbing

Orchestra

  • Violin: Richard Deakin, Alan McNaught, Elizabeth Spurrell
  • Viola: Ralph Aldrich, Christopher Hum
  • Cello: Tom Akeley, Giles Melville
  • Oboe: Jocelyn Godwin
  • Clarinet: Alan Maries, John Green
  • Timpani: Glyn Bragg, Geoffrey Woodhouse
  • Conductor: Philip Brett
  • Assistant conductor: Colin Timms

Production team

  • Producers: George Rylands, Alan Ker
  • Composer: Philip Radcliffe
  • Stage managers: Freya Baldchin, Patricia Smith
  • Make-up: Ursula Scott, Penelope Faber, Joan Hoar, John Tanfield
  • Promperts: Brian Graham, Peter Greenhalgh