OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  William Butler Yeats 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Sophocles

• Setting

  Outside the Palace of King Oedipus.

• Synopsis

  Sophocles' classic tragedy begins with a horrific plague afflicting the city of Thebes. King Oedipus asks the Oracle of Delphi for help who tells him that he must expel from Thebes the infamous one, who has angered the Gods. Oedipus discovers that he himself was the one who had unwittingly killed Laius and then married his own mother, Jocasta. Jocasta commits suicide and Oedipus blinds himself.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  18

• Female

  3

• Total

  21

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 December 1926

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and from press cuttings.