Learning on ScreenOedipus Rex 1
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min.
- Year of production
- 1957
- Availability
- Sale; 2000 sale: US$149.00 (+p&p)
- Subjects
- Classical studies; Drama
- Keywords
- drama - classical; Greece - classical; performances; Sophocles; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
Credits
- Director
- Abraham Polonsky; Tyrone Guthrie
- Producer
- Leonio Kipnis
- Writer
- Sophocles
- Contributor
- William Butler Yeats
- Cast
Douglas Campbell Douglas Rain Eleanor Stuart
Production Company
- Name
Oedipus Rex
Distributor
- Name
Insight Media
- custserv@insight-media.com
- Web
- http://www.insight-media.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +1 212 721 6316
- Fax
- +1 212 799 5309
- Address
- 2162 Broadway
New York
NY 10024 6621
USA - Notes
- US-based distributor of an extensive range of DVD, video and CD-ROM titles for university, secondary and vocational education. Catalogue divided into the following sections: Architecture & Design; Business & Economics; Communication; Counselling & Social Work; Drama, Music & Dance; Education; Engineering; Language & Culture; Nursing & Allied Health; Physical Education; Science & Agriculture; Social Sciences. A recent development is a dedicated video-on-demand website http://www.insight-media-digital.com/ which includes a particularly strong nursing library.
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