Theban Plays: Antigone

Theban Plays: Antigone

111 mins | Drama | Sept. 19, 1986

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.

Theban Plays: Antigone

111 mins | Drama | Sept. 19, 1986

Theban Plays: Antigone
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers BBC
Original title Theban Plays: Antigone
Directors Don Taylor
Writers Don Taylor, Sophocles

Cast

Juliet Stevenson

as Antigone

Gwen Taylor

as Ismene

Patrick Barr

as Chorus

Paul Daneman

as Chorus

Donald Eccles

as Chorus

Robert Eddison

as Chorus

Ewan Hooper

as Chorus

Peter Jeffrey

as Chorus

Noel Johnson

as Chorus

Robert Lang

as Chorus

John Ringham

as Chorus

Frederick Treves

as Chorus

John Woodnutt

as Chorus

John Shrapnel

as Creon

Tony Selby

as Soldier

Mike Gwilym

as Chorus

John Gielgud

as Tiresias

Bernard Hill

as Messenger

Paul Russell

as Boy

Rosalie Crutchley

as Eurydice

Patrick Godfrey

as Chorus