Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38412 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-11
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 88 minutes

Customer Reviews

"...the seer can indeed see"
This is a 1957 recording of the stage production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. It is performed with minimal props and some smoke. As the custom of ancient Greece the players ware masks. The masks are larger than life and do not covers the whole face allowing for some expression and clarity. Coordinating with the masks are certain colored robes; there is a gold mask for the king, silver mask for the queen, a white mask for the seer, corresponding colors for major players and the chorus.

The play is the story told over two thousand years ago of the destruction of one man so that his people might live. Oedipus will gradually discover that he fulfilled the prophecy and crime of killing his father and marrying his mother. The actual wording of the play may vary from the written version.

Now after the introduction and background, watch as the citizens approach and see the unfolding of this tragedy.

Reading "Oedipus and Akhnaton" by Immanuel Velikovsky may shine a different light on this play.