Drama on 3: Oedipus the King, by Anthony BurgessSeries 1, episode 0The first-ever chance to hear in the UK Anthony Burgess's robust and powerful version of Sophocles' classic text. The drama includes an invented language that Burgess created especially for the 1974 production of the piece at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, USA, which has been archived in the International Anthony Burgess Foundation archive. Part of Radio 3's Burgess centenary programming, marking 100 years since the birth of Manchester-born novelist and playwright Anthony Burgess. With Christopher Eccleston, Don Warrington, John Shrapnel, Fiona Shaw, Vincent Ebrahim, Darrell D'Silva, Katie Kemp-Riley, Tess Robinson. Ryley Nixon, Eleanor Read, Lucy Godson and Billie Robinson Click to see when Drama on 3, Oedipus the King, by Anthony Burgess is coming up on UK TV |
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