Ralph Fiennes Plays Oedipus
Ralph Fiennes is to play the title role of Oedipus in a new adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy by Frank McGuinness directed by Jonathan Kent.
Joining Ralph Fiennes are Alan Howard as Teiresias, Clare Higgins as Jocasta and Jasper Britton as Creon.
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.
Oedipus is scheduled until 3rd January 2009 at the Olivier Theatre and we are taking bookings for the 17th November onwards.
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