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