Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)

9.0/10 111 min Drama

Overview

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.

Cast

Juliet Stevenson

Antigone

Gwen Taylor

Ismene

Patrick Barr

Chorus

Paul Daneman

Chorus

Robert Eddison

Chorus

Ewan Hooper

Chorus

Peter Jeffrey

Chorus

Robert Lang

Chorus

John Woodnutt

Chorus

John Shrapnel

Creon

Tony Selby

Soldier

Mike Gwilym

Chorus

John Gielgud

Tiresias

Bernard Hill

Messenger

Rosalie Crutchley

Eurydice

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