The ‘old-fashioned populist’ Don Taylor, reported the Radio Times, was concerned to translate Sophocles to television for the appreciation of the ‘masses’ (Jim Crace, ‘Classics for Pleasure’, Radio Times, 13 September 1986, pp. I found Oedipus the King to be a pretty lethargic production swept slowly along by a too repetitive orchestral score ( read that post here). I have already written about the first two plays in the trilogy. My work on these four Don Taylor productions, then, forms the last chapter of my Greeks on Screen case study, and I shall turn to Iphigenia at Aulis in my next post. The plays were translated and directed by Don Taylor who would, four years later in 1990, turn to Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis which is, to the best of my knowledge, the last Greek tragedy to be pr oduced on British television. The Theban Plays, a trilogy of Sophocles’ tragedies Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, was broadcast on BBC2 over three evenings of one week in September 1986 (and all three productions are available on YouTube).
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