The Sons of 'Oedipus A Dramatic Pageant
The Phoenician Women by Euripides, in a new translation by DAVID THOMPSON
Music specially composed by CHRISTOS PITTAS , with Siobhan McKenna as Jocasta Michael Redgrave as Oedipus Maureen O'Brien as Antigone John Rowe as Creon. and Michael Deacon as Eteocles
ETEOCLES: Mother, let me be frank. I want one thing,
And I would pluck the sun and stars out of the sky
Or rake the underworld, to see
I had it.
That thing is Power - the Power to be a King.
Something too precious, mother, to barter
With a brother, when it is mine. I hold it.
He threatens violence. I could not stoop to it.
The wrong is his, trying to negotiate By force ...
Chorus: EVA HADDON. MADI HEDD ANNE JAMESON , DEBORAH PAIGE EMILY RICHARD , JANE WENHAM Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS