Skip to main content
Production

Oedipus the King (1926)

APGRD id
649
Start date
7th December 1926
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
English
Associated ancient works
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Scripts:
King Oedipus (1926) (William Butler Yeats)
APGRD Notes
This production was revived in 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1933 at the Abbey Theatre. The actors playing Oedipus and Jocasta were husband and wife.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/649
Related Content
Person Credit Notes
Lennox Robinson Composer music for the Choruses
Lennox Robinson Producer
Lennox Robinson Set
Frank J. McCormick Actor Oedipus
Eileen Crowe Actor Jocasta
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Leinster, Republic of Ireland) Republic of Ireland
Title Year Format Content
Medea Programme
Seamus Heaney, Colonialism, and the Cure: Sophoclean Re-Visions Print-out journal article
The Burial at Thebes Programme
Theatre Arts Monthly Journal photograph
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.13.1 (Spring/Summer 2005) David Wiles, Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) AKA George Gilbert Aimé Murray, Tony Harrison Journal
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.11.2 (Fall 2003) Mark Rudman, Fiona Macintosh Journal
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy Peter Burian, Simon Goldhill, Paul Cartledge, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin Book
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium Katharine Worth, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Kathleen Riley, Pantelis Michelakis, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Helene Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, Peter G. McC. Brown, David Wiles, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) Book