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Oedipus Rex

Author: W B YeatsTyrone Guthrie, SirLeonid KipnisDouglas CampbellEleanor StuartAll authors
Publisher: Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2002]
Edition/Format:   DVD video : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
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Genre/Form: Fiction films
Feature films
Film adaptations
Drama
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: W B Yeats; Tyrone Guthrie, Sir; Leonid Kipnis; Douglas Campbell; Eleanor Stuart; Douglas Rain; Louis Applebaum; Cedric Thorpe Davie; Sophocles.; Image Entertainment (Firm)
OCLC Number: 50188710
Language Note: Closed-captioned.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
Credits: Photography, Roger Barlow ; film editor, Richard C. Meyer ; music composed and conducted by Louis Applebaum ; music for chorus, Cedric Thorpe Davie ; masks, Tania Moisewitsch, Jacqueline Cundall.
Cast: Douglas Campbell (Oedipus), Eleanor Stuart (Jocasta), Robert Goodier (Creon), William Hutt (Chorus Leader), Donald Davis (Tirasias), Douglas Rain (Messenger), Tony van Bridge (Man from Corinth), Eric House (Shepherd/Old Priest), Gertrude Tyas (Nurse), Naomi Cameron (Ismene), Barbara Franklin (Antigone).
Target Audience: MPAA rating: Not rated.
Description: 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital mono, widescreen presentation, original theatrical aspect ratio 1.85:1.
Other Titles: Oedipus Rex (Motion picture : 1957)
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Responsibility: by Sophocles in a version by William Butler Yeats ; a Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada production ; directed by Tyrone Guthrie ; produced by Leonid Kipnis.

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The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.

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