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A performance of Sophocles’ most famous tragedy, setting the play in the past but not the distant past.
Television schools programme. Redvers Kyle introduces works which have been influenced by the theme of Romeo and Juliet. In Part 2 he discusses Sophocles’ Antigone and Caste by T.W. Robertson.
A new three-year research project at the University Westminster is currently underway with the ambitious aim of collating information on all plays written for the theatre that have been produced for British...
Sophocles’ Greek tragedy about a boy who becomes obsessed with his mother. Filmed on location in Morocco.
Features scenes from Sophocles’ ‘Electra’, directed by Dimitrios Rondiris of the National Theatre of Greece, an authority on classical Greek movement and the vocal style of the Chorus. It provides a...
A production of Sophocles’ play ‘Ajax’ by the London Small Theatre Company, directed by Peter Meineck, which modernises the sets and characters while keeping classical themes intact.
Tells the story of Oedipus, now old, blind and outcast, wandering through Greece, guided by his daughter Antigone to Colonus, where he knows he will die.
Contemporary interpretations of classic Greek plays by leading directors. Includes extracts from Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (Andrej Wajda), ‘Oresteia’ by Aeschylus (Hans Gunther Heyme), ‘The...
Along with ‘Oedipus’ and ‘Antigone’ this completes Sophocles’ Theban trilogy. Oedipus finally comes to terms with his life of triumph, tragedy and disgrace and finds relief in death. He overcomes...
Sir Tyrone Guthrie directs a version of ‘Oedipus Rex’ using W B Yest’s translation. Here, the actors wear masks, thus performing their roles just as the Greeks did in Sophocles’ time.
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