In Oedipus the King, a plague is ravaging the city of Thebes. Oedipus learns that the polluting curse was triggered by the murder of his predecessor, Laïus. Determined to find the killer and end the threat to his people, Oedipus rages toward the truth and confronts an oracle’s haunting prophecy.

Oedipus at Colonus finds the king of Thebes now a blinded beggar banished for his sins. But he also holds a certain power—and with it a foretelling of further tragedy for his family.

In Antigone, the battle for control over Thebes has left two mourning sisters to face a more personal and devastating war with a new ruler who defies the laws of gods and men.

Inspired by the mythic house of Thebes, Sophocles’s defining Greek tragedies follow the fates that befall three doomed generations.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Oedipus Plays, this edition of The Oedipus Plays (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Performed by the actors of The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company

Oedipus the King

Stage Directions/Argument—Kat Hermes

Oedipus—Scott Lange

The Priest of Zeus/Jocasta—Katherine Mayberry

Teiresias/Messenger—Eric Orive

Creon/Herdsman—Scott Wright

Second Messenger—Sarah Stark

Chorus—Kathleen Bode and Chaz Albright

Oedipus at Colonus

Stage Directions/Argument—Katherine Mayberry

Oedipus—Scott Lange

Antigone—Kat Hermes

Ismene—Sarah Stark

Theseus/Polyneices/Stranger—Eric Orive

Creon/Messenger—Scott Wright

Chorus—Kathleen Bode and Chaz Albright

Antigone

Stage Directions/Argument—Katherine Mayberry

Antigone—Kat Hermes

Ismene/Eurydice—Sarah Stark

Creon—Scott Wright

Haemon/Messenger—Chaz Albright

Teiresias/Guard—Eric Orive

Chorus—Kathleen Bode and Scott Lange