Oedipus the King (BBC 1986)

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my children you are the modern descendants of King Cadmus who founded our city why'd you come here with these Laurel branches ritually dressed and all the signs of desperate people begging for help in the city I hear prayers for the sick and the sound of weeping the air is heavy with incense and tears what more do you want I can't rely on second-hand reports I've come to find out for myself I am Oedipus the King everyone knows my name you sir you are a priest a man old enough to be wise and entitled to speak first a sudden panic is it or a demand for action anything I can do I will do a course I would have to be a man without pity to close my eyes and stop my ears to a petition from everyone such as this King Oedipus Lord of peeps you see us many hundreds crowding to your palace youngsters like birds still in the nest old men whose eyes have seen everything priests of Zeus like me and of other gods and the very best of our young men we have all come here there are thousands more sitting in the marketplace carrying emblems like these others at the two altars of Pallas Athene II and at his Mainers shrine by the river bank where the future can be read in the ashes and we are all offering desperate prayers you've seen yourself what's happening here this city is like a warship defeated in battle wallowing aimlessly in a sea of blood the crops of rotting the fields disease is killing all the cattle babies are born dead will decay in the womb and as if that wasn't enough some God has sent plague like a fire demon to scorch our people the core child Cadmus built will assume the empty the underworld is already clouded with he burns weeping in the darkest for themselves and their kin if we choose to come here to beg for help it's not because we think of you as a God but because we know you to be the best of men not only in the daily business of the state but in those deeper mysteries of life where the mind of man touches eternity we haven't forgotten that was you a young man newly arrived here who solved the riddle distinct that monsters perversion of woman iron and bird and freed us from her magical tyranny we could do nothing to help you then and I think we all think some God helped you that's why world famous youtubers we're asking for your help again find us some remedy either than your own experience or by calling on supernatural powers you've solved terrible problems in the past and that gives us confidence in your abilities now indeed you have a reputation to live up to your genius has saved us once it would be ridiculous to preserve this thing wanted to see us wasted now save us again as you did before sale under that same lucky star and guide us as a real prince should into the harbor of good fortune and peace [Music] none land ship needs no captain the city that is empty because its people are dead there's no further use for a king my children believe me when I say I know everything you're suffering why you've come here and what you ask of me I suffer as much perhaps more than you do you carry your personal burdens of sorrow I carry them too and my own and the cities I have not been sleeping my eyes like yours are bloodshot with too frequent ears I've walked every corridor in a palace and all the secret galleries of my mind searching and searching what best to do and this much I have done because I haven't been idle the one thing that seems sensible my brother-in-law crayon the son of monoi pious I have sent to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi to ask for pip here the sacred priestess what action or word of mine might help he ought to be here his mission has taken far longer than it should and I begin to wonder what keeps him so long when he arrives what ever the Oracle demands you have my word will be meticulously performed no man can say better than that nor on the pedicure look there's the signature crayon himself his approach whatever the message he's certainly smiling Apollo god of healing let the news be good dear brother-in-law sonoma noches what is the God's message what does the article say it's good news Oh perhaps I should say it will be good news of all turns out well then perhaps painful to begin with so what does that mean that's such an answer I don't know if I should laugh or cry do you want me to say it all here in public or shall we go in in public of course while these people suffer I suffer to their life concerns me more than my own the answer is straightforward and the commands simple there is something unclean in our city born here living here it pollutes everything we Harbor it we must drive it out how can it be purified the pollution of this unclean thing what is it by banishment or by blood for blood it was bloodshed the Oracle said that whipped up this storm that's destroying us whose blood was shed what sort of man there was a king here sir before you came his name was lyin I know the name I never saw the man the man was killed and the articles meaning is clear enough the murderers of liest must be found and the unknown killers brought to justice but where are they the trails gone cold it's an old story now where should we begin here the God said here search and you won't be disappointed no evidence has ever found if you don't look for it where did it happen this unexplained murder was it here in the palace or in the country or while he was travelling abroad he left the city to make a pilgrimage and he never returned except in a coffin yeah and who was with him didn't anyone see it there must be evidence some scraps some rumor one of the servants escaped he ran so fast he could only remember one thing what they tell me a smallest clue might lead to others he said that robbers not one man a whole band of them met them on the road and they murdered the king robbers would they dare attack a king perhaps they were bought Theban money and political ambition the mercial we thought that too at first but the crisis blew up almost at once we had other problems last was dead no one pursued it what crisis could be greater than a murdered King so the never was a full investigation the voice of the Sphinx seemed to mesmerizes she drained all our energies with her riddling it was a question of survival no time for unsolved mysteries even regicide then I shall begin it it's time enough now we'll shine a flashlight into every corner of the whole dark and musty business I am determined to do everything I can to help our city and to show the gods justice it's in my interest to to avenge this crime justice for liars and my own safety go hand-in-hand so go to your homes dear people my children pick up your sad sprays of Laurel call the Theban counselors here and tell them that I shall do everything a man can do with a God's help we shall find out the truth and save our city we must all be destroyed [Music] go home now have good people the King has promised everything we came to ask for follow the healer who's priestess gave us good answers may come himself to cure this sickness of man and beast it has played [Music] the Royal Suite has music from the possible and the priestess speaks to some beans and the God speaks through her but his meetings absurd my hands are shaking my heart is cold from your island of your supreme physician send us all please play this torture unique for the old condition of suffering man through the centuries the golden child of hooked never dies and we live by her prophecies [Music] your sister Artemis the gear spare whee-hoo stony eyes watch in the marketplace from her marble throne and poor man Apollo infallible marksman Trinity of dances show us your power search our diseases and save our nation if ever you saved us in the days of disaster when the plague enforced its reign of terror and a fire consumed us that no man would master [Music] AGGA knees are beyond telling a whole city slowly die from an enemy no man can fight slime and fungus on orchard and meadow yes in the wound and birth in the shadow of death and in a mother site men die without number like birds fly like fire consuming is tearing chi as they passed to the shadows night [Music] the smell of the dead the streets stinking breeds death and more death beyond all counting no tears has had children died from the girl wife the gray-haired mother airing their nails of the crowded altar accusing the implacable scar [Music] [Music] sighs music I hear the low sauce patch or she a friend be seeking from the only song is the groan of the dying patient whoever survives the night dies at first lights before we all die Sam is talking [Music] and hard riding Artemis whose torches flare on Elysium sloped ceiling sparks as you pass and collar of ecstasy backers above all whose drowsy peace inspires and protects us City gone to the golden terminal blushed face why your vision of sports light we stir [Music] as your me nerd sweep by from the friend cities I to us wielding ecstatic fire [Music] [Music] you're paid to the gods now listen to me if you act as I tell you to act follow my instructions in every detail those prayers will soon be answered I speak as an outsider I know nothing of this story of the murder or the murderer so without your help I'm hardly a clue to go on alone what trail can I follow when the crime is committed I wasn't even a citizen of Thieves so first I'll make a public Proclamation if any man here knows the killer's name he must speak out now in public to me perhaps one of you is the guilty man that man is here and gives himself up now it will be easier for him there will be no capital charge the Severus sentence I shall pronounce will be exile no greater punishment than that maybe one of you has inside knowledge that some foreigner was the killer if you turn in poor ma you will be well paid I shall see to that but my gratitude will be the truest most satisfying reward if however that man is here and refuses to speak or if anyone out of fear for himself his friends or his family ignores these offers and then is discovered to be sheltering someone or himself on that man I passed symptoms already it doesn't matter who he is I eat of us go bid any man to speak with or give shelter to that man in this city or in the country under my rule no one may play with him make sacrifices with him or even allow him to wash in his house everyone will throw him out of doors as the perpetrator of this horrible crime that brings such suffering on our city according to the prophetic word of Apollo has revealed to me by the Delphic Oracle I stand here as the champion of the God and of the dead King too the murderer with all solemnity I curse him whether he acted alone or with others to bear the mark of his crime for the rest of his life without friends homeless and in misery I'll go further I don't even exclude myself if knowingly I should shelter this criminal in any house or half or any place of mine that the curse I have uttered fall on me too as fiercely as on anyone that is my sentence to be honest with you I am surprised that no purification ceremonies on investigations were undertaken when so excellent a king as liest was inexplicably murdered even without the gods come on that should be looked into I should have fought now however I am king I enjoy liest title his bed and his wife she's a kind of common ground between us and his children indeed if he had had any would be another bond sharing a mother with mine and he was the sad victim of this tragedy these links between us and my feeling for the man made me determined to fight for him now as if he were my own father nothing will be too much trouble to ferret him out and if any man dares to disobey these orders that the gods curse his fall on him to bear Allah Baron Kapil a barren wife and all the horrors this suffering city daily indoors without mercy till the end of his life the curse will frighten any man great king of Thebes and he terrified me I'm not the killer let me say that abuts and I can't point your mouth I'll tell you his name because Apollo asked this question here if anyone should tell us the answer I don't doubt that but if you couldn't tell me how a man persuades a god to speak when the God doesn't want to I shall thank you for it one other thing might be worth saying second-best admittedly second best third best say what you think any man's opinion is worth hearing at a time like this the Prophet old astrologer Tiresias has studied the mysteries of men and God he has knowledge and experience and insights he more than anyone could help us which is why I've sent for him already nothing my has been overlooked crayon suggested it I've sent for him twice and expected in here some time ago there were rumors of course gossip in the marketplace what rumors you must tell me everything the travelers killed him somewhere on the road I've heard that already there are no witnesses here comes the man to teaser the truth the mind man vishay man Tiresias he sees into the heart of things and has sought more mysteries than any man living [Music] [Music] you have made yourself master of all the arts of understanding both mystic symbolism and practical wisdom the highest spiritual truths and the most down-to-earth material realities are equally your problems you see the state of our city not with your eyes I know but with your intellect we rely on you as our spiritual champion we sent to the article you love heard that already and the answer we were given find out the killers of the old king execute them or banish them and only then will your city be clean so maestro we need your talents now we know that in the formations of birds in flight and many other omens you can read the future for your own sake for the sake of the city and for me help us to end this pestilence a dead man walks in our streets blinds us with his shadow we are in your hands the gifted man puts his gifts to best use in the service of his fellow man mine is a terrifying gift but use his wisdom when it only leads to suffering I knew this before I came and foolishly forgot it I should have stayed at home do you refuse to answer my question this is Thebes your country you were born here heard your Proclamation its misconceived so it's best for me to keep silent dear gods you mean that you know and won't say look look around it a stone city we're all imploring you to speak because you are all blind to what I can see I can't tell you the truth is painful my secrets and yours you do know it don't you and you're holding back are you prepared to watch the whole country die saving you from agony and myself don't ask me again don't waste your time I shall tell you nothing nothing what kind of a monster are you a stone statue will be moved to fury much less a man do mean this how you determined to say nothing lose your temper make me your scapegoat when it's your own anger you should blame you hear him what this man is saying this is an insult to the state every decent citizen great I can't change the future and they describe it what will happen will happen whatever I say you'll see just say what you know if it must come you must tell me lose your temper shut stamp if that pleases you I shall say nothing yes I shall be angry and more than angry I understand this much I understand that you were implicated maybe even plan this murder did everything but act it I would have done that too in my opinion if you had eyes to see your victim would I indeed you compel me to speak the curse you proclaim this now upon your head from today never to speak to me or anyone you are the man the unclean thing the dirt that breeds disease I don't need it the truth is its own protector someone's behind this who told you to say that there's more to this Sun fortune-telling you did you made me say it against my will say it again so there will be no doubt didn't you hear oh do you want me to elaborate I heard but I didn't believe my ears say it again aloud to everybody to my face you will regret this old man hold your anger if it pleases you I could say more to make you angry or still why not more and more lunacy let's have it all I know but you do not that the woman you love is not the woman you love the relationship is disgusting taboo and in your ignorance will destroy you do you expect to say such things and not be punished the truth protects me if I tell it honestly the truth what's the truth are you your blind all over his mind as well as eyes I pity you people will scream the same in such a Jew before long everyone will despise you you will live in darkness permanently you see nothing of the real world my eyes are open you can't hurt me something I business Apollo will do it it's in his endless crayon of course he went to the article this plot is his doing yours Ian isn't your enemy you are mythical rank wealth and power and men's ambitions clawing at each other till life becomes a battleground and in the everyone's motive clearly it has been my friend I trusted him completely this crown was given to be freely by the people I didn't ask for it and this man my friend is secretly plotting to overthrow me with a spiritual quack a charlatan not tell a normal stunt man whose eyes a stone blind when it comes to prophecy but where money's concerned very sharp then why open that's ecology Jim telling forecasting the future where was all that when we needed it there was a monster do you remember I'm sure you do with a face of a woman and the body of a dog who terrorized our city where were you then what was your advice to save this country she said a riddle which no ordinary man could solve someone special was required what Elsa prophets for but you yeah and the clue had you but a word not the slightest attention and I came along a young man quite ignorant knowing nothing with only the wit my mother gave me but I stopped her mouth I did it each of us I guessed hurried off without any gobbledygook about birds and I either purrs I am the man you hope to depose you and crayon so that he will be king and you his girl well you will regret it you're both regret this attempt to turn me into a scapegoat if you weren't an old man punishment would teach you the difference between prophecy and when our city is dying we must consider the courts come on how to pay a king but I am a free man and I have the right to answer I serve Apollo the God not you no Craven you sneer at my blindness you have eyes but cannot see your own corruption who she is you love the most not even whose son you are in your ignorance who have committed terrible crimes against those closest to you the living and the dead double curse like a two-edged sword father and mother will drive you from this city into exile forever and what a [ __ ] you'll be then those bright eyes a perfect vision you were so proud of will become dark like nine non-accountable misery sufferings you cannot guess it will become familiar both to you and to your children as you pile your agonism on their heads IQs crayon of every crime slander him despise what I say every man in the world will despise you and no man has committed crimes like yours I don't have to listen to you do you think I was born fool your parents wouldn't think so why this continual hopping upon my parents and plainly don't talk in riddles why not you have a genius for solving them yes I'm famous for it and your sneers and insults won't make me any the less incisive that fame is your misfortune I saved the state with my genius what does it matter to me what you choose to call it now I shall go give me your hand boy take me home that's taken and good riddance we can do without you brave in your own house and spare mine girl I've said what I came to say and I've said it to your face why should I be frightened you no longer have the power to hurt me but I will say one thing more the man you're looking for the man you cursed and threatened the murderer liars is here he passes for a foreigner who lives in Thebes but he was born here and will learn that to his cost he could see when he came here he will leave blind he's a rich man now he will go was a bigger groping with a stick in his hand step in his way he will leave this city into endless exile to his children whom he loves his brother lover and son to his father a killer and a man who supplants you go in set your genius to solve those riddles call me a blind man when you prove them untrue [Music] by far left that been flying for his hands trail blood from us in the article touches to which faster than the strong this horse must run outstrip the wind thundering Suisun gallops behind grasp in his fist the lethal lightning and the hounds of the Gods the unsleeping faiths close in like a circle tightening from the snowbound crest of Parnassus the word was transmitted to feed like a thief in the night like a mountain bull where the forest ithaca the caves Bleeker he creeps completely flies the voice of those prophesies sacred summit is too far for Apollo's ventures and the CSS print fear and confusion should we believe him or not all right best to keep quiet I'm like jelly uncertain what's happening or will happen was there ever a row in the past or is there now between polymer son in the ruling line of these the house of lab did nobody ever heard but could be more absurd than to black with no proof either purse named by pinning this unsolved murder on him [Music] secrets of man all the mysteries of his nature unknown to Zeus and Apollo no one can claim a monopoly of wisdom one teacher is as good as another absolute better than any of us some may see deeper and some may not because wisdom is a junction unequally shared among men but what was done must be known beyond doubt he deepest saved our state he publicly outwitted the Sphinx like gold he was tested and found truth we must see [Music] soon as these members of the council they tell me the king has charged me with suppression I am innocent of any such charge the city is on its knees does he imagine of a time like this I would injure him by any word or action I'd rather die than be smeared like that it is a smear to be accused of treason before you and my friends and my countrymen he lost his temper and made wild accusation I think he spoke without thought did he say that the old prophet lied under my instructions who gave him that idea he did say it but why he said it or whether he meant it is a matter of opinion is he right in the head did he speak rationally and look you in the eye or is he gone mad I've got more common sense and to make judgments like that on the Kings action here he comes from the palace he'll speak for himself what have you come for I've hardly imagined you'd be thick-skinned enough to come knocking at my doors again when you're planning to murder me and take my power you need plenty of friends and financial backing to capture a throne revolutions are made with men and the money to pay them or by them let's speak in my own defence judge me when you've heard my answer before ma'am you've always been a brilliant talk about talk cuts no ice with me I've seen the evidence of your actions betrayal said you shall you let me speak say what you like but don't protest your innocence that would be too much do you really think that closing your mind a boneheaded refusal to listen as a sensible way of proceeding you really think that I can allow you to plot a palace revolution and do nothing about it because you're my brother-in-law your fool would allow that I agree if it were happening there is no revolution in the palace or anywhere no conspiracy supposed to as you advise me to send for that camping profits it was good advice I'd give it again tell me how long ago did Elias did last what I didn't follow you he died mysteriously how long ago was that years and years I can hardly remember and this fortune teller he was here then already in the prophecy business respected then as now for his still and Integra and did he mention me when the murder happened not in my hair and did you not hold an inquest saw some time invested there wasn't inquiry but it revealed not and this respected prophet why did he say nothing then our what here said today I have no idea I never say anything unless I'm in full possession of the facts one thing you do know and you'd be wise to tell me what can I say everything I know I'll tell you I'll keep nothing back you know this much without your prompting the fortune-teller would never have dare to accuse me of a murder of liars did he say that then you must know whether he's lying or telling the truth not I am i permitted to interrogate you why not I've got nothing to hide you will never pin this murder on me are you married to my sister what kind of a question is that I can hardly deny it can i I do have that honor she shares the throne both title and revenue course she does what's mine is hers and I am the third partner I have my share of power and responsibility you've always had it all the more disgusting to conspire against me behind my back but I haven't conspired against you ask yourself as I asked myself with any sane man with willingly exchanged a quiet life within the ruling family but a wear and tear the grueling responsibilities of governments it has never crossed my mind I have no ambition to be king in name or in fact I lived like a king sometimes I hope I act like one and that's enough no sensible man with one for them now if I have your job to be too many things I wouldn't like doing and they're more satisfaction from the kingship itself then I get now from royal rank without royal obligations I'm not so drunk with the prospect of power as to envy a position that yields no profit look at me now everyone knows me everyone loves me I think anyone who seeks to get your attention first prize for mine because my influence guarantees success why should I change such a favorable situation is it likely I'd be such a fool as to break with you in such conditions as far as to commit treason as a political policy it has nothing to recommend it it's not mine nor the policy of any of my friends not if I know them if you want proof send to the priestess at the Oracle check the message I brought if it was true produce some evidence of conspiracy between the blind man and me prove that and condemn me to death out of hand my verdict in those conditions will be as merciless as any man's if you waited words we make good sense well worth of brutal magical generation quick judgments are not always the wiser shall I sit and do nothing while he takes power and my own sluggishness destroys me but you want their dad me banished ravish I want you dead what have I done to provoke such jealousy and still so obstinate still pretend as I am because you're not my best in decisions my City as well as your top this brawling Queen Jocasta is coming from the pub she will help us to put an end to this world what is all this shouting from inside the palace I heard angry voices like a quarrel aren't you ashamed indulging yourself in private arguments squabbling like boys while the city dies all around you go inside my husband crayon go back to your own house before you turn a private row into a public spectacle we are blood relations but your husband has condemned me unheard to the choice of death or exile battle now and that dear life is at least I can do may all the gods curse me forever if I was even remotely guilty likely believe him for my snake and for the sake of these reliable counselors they heard it be prepared to change are you asking me to break my word Oh show some leniency do you know what you're asking certainly one no don't you understand your own implication spare him and you demand my banishment or death and the life-giving Sun that necessary power we live doctor terrible thought never caught my mind had far rather be an outcast worthless friendless despised and distraught that he faced such a destiny our city is in anguish what greater blow could fall on us in an easily than anger and hatred between you let him go even if my death exile or disgrace is the price of his mercy your voice buys his pardon not is wherever he hides his face and my back breaking hate said his burden your apologies as graceless as your angers insane an unforgiving nature breeds misery in its own heart not that of its enemy your God yes our girl they respect my integrity I misjudged by you alone [Music] take the guineas hi madam a minute tell me all the details you can speak without net sleeping dogs lie your intentions are honorable but your advice is pregnant with disaster all the guilt falls on me King believe me when I say again what I have said before we would be stark mad to counsel than action so insane that's the cop you out without proof we need your help and guidance you'll remember her like a pilot in that desperate storm perfect you navigated us to harbor you you are captain in rough calm please tell me what harm to provoke such fury so suddenly I am worthy your trust these old men mean well but you matter to me far more it's crayon I'm sickened with disgust at the scope of his conspiracy what conspiracy and why do you accuse my brother says I'm responsible for Maya shmurda [Music] and he any evidence or is it hearsay he says nothing himself that corrupt fortune teller speaks for him with his bird talk and prophecy no personal experience I have when Nyhus was alive an Oracle told him not the God himself but through his mouthpiece but he would be killed by his own son Oh child and it didn't happen lice was killed by persons unknown barlen robbers according to the story at the place where three roads meet mister the child it was abandoned on a deserted mountain before it was three days old by a servant Kings never commit such acts themselves to make doubly sure its ankles were pierced and strapped together with leather thongs so that prediction didn't come true in spite of Apollo the prophecy of parricide wasn't fulfilled Liars was murdered but not as he feared by his own son the Oracle had been unambiguous its meaning quite plain so why take notice of these fortune tellers and astrologers the gods always get their own way without anyone's help when they're ready something you said Jocasta I remember my brains are turmoil feelings memories why do you look at me so strangely what's the matter you said didn't you Atlas was butchered at a place where three roads meet place in focus near the junction where the road deceives folks to dolly and alpha and how long ago did all this happened you hadn't arrived the news became public a short while before you became King Oh what will you do to me you look terrified what if I say not yet don't ask me yet how old was liest kind of man was he big man hair gray about your build yeah God without knowing it I may have dammed myself just a moment ago maybe Tiresias could see after all possible tell me one more thing why are you frightening me I'll tell you everything who was with the king a few attendants whom was he traveling in state with servants and armed men I've men all told one of them a herald Liars himself rode in a carriage nothing could be clearer than that every detail where did you get this information there was one survivor eventually got back to see I'm still here nah no he isn't by the time he got back everything had changed in the city you were king in last place when he saw how things were came to me and begged me on his knees to let him go back to the country to be a shepherd he said he wanted to be done with thieves out of sight out of mind I want him here at once today and we find him of course we can but why are you so anxious with your wife I'm frightened of what I've done what I'm doing I've already said far too much I must see the shepherd ask him some questions you will see him we'll send for him but why are you so worried you must tell me I do have a right to know yes yes you have a right to know if the truth of this is what I think it is no one has a better right to know than you I'll tell you the whole story my father Polybus was current born and Merapi my mother came from doris I was an up-and-coming fellow very much the man to watch until one day an odd thing happened justanna shing thing which caused more trouble perhaps than it merited but which I took seriously at a banquet one day a man who had drunk too much jeered at me and said I was not my father's son I was very hurt angry and insulted by kept it to myself for the rest of that day the next morning I went to my parents both father and mother together and asked them question after question almost compelling them to tell me the truth they were very angry that anyone should dare say such a thing and put my mind at rest as best they could but a thing like that gets under your skin I couldn't forget it and the story got around a good deal as these things do so without telling my parents I went to the Oracle at Delphi I got no answer to the question I asked a catalogue of horrors miseries instead that I would marry my own mother and father children on her conceived incestuously and become a public outcast for it notorious throughout the world as if this weren't enough I would kill my own father what could I do I ran as fast as far from corinth as any man could always checking my distance from that Forbidden City by the position of the stars so those dreadful prophesies could not possibly come true the route I took brought me into that part of the country where according to you lieth was murdered Madison Jocasta this is the truth in every detail I reached a place where three roads meet I was confronted by a Herald ahead of a carriage drawn by horses and carrying a passenger just as you described gray-haired my build the man in front shouted me to clear the road and the old man to rudely ordered me to get out of his way the driver barged into me so I hit him hard I was furious by now uncontrollable but the old man and the carriage was watching for his chance he waited till I passed him and then he struck me full on the head with his two pronged stick the kind you use for goading the horses to make them gallop I paid him back with interest in double-quick I whacked him savagely with my stars and not tomorrow the carriage he fell flat in the road the others attacked me of course why kill them every one if that old man was remotely connected with Liars if the Kings blood ran in his veins is there any man more miserable than I am every God will aid me and all men no one will speak to me friend or stranger no one will take me into his house I cursed the murderer and the weight of that curse now falls on me these same hands that murdered him a fondled his wife no story is terrifying they came I don't give up hope there was an eyewitness until you've questioned him ain't nothing Shepard it's my last chance I'll detail and is crucial if his story corroborates yours I am proved innocent what detail does it matter what did I say your version of the Shepards evidence the king was killed by robbers robbers plural now if he says the same still calls and robbers I'm in the clear one man is not a group of men plural is plural not singular but if he describes a single traveler walking alone I think quite obviously all the evidence will point to me oh but you did say that I'm certain you can't change his story now he spoke in public the whole city heard him and even if his evidence varies in detail final possible stretch of the imagination can he pretend that liest I just predicted that son of mine would kill him the article said and it didn't happen my poor little boy killed no one he was the one who died years before any of this happened that's how much articles are worth in future whatever they say one way or the other I won't waste my time with any of them that's the truth of the matter what will speak to the Shepherd's sex I'm going to fetch him now this minute at once we'll get him at once come inside I'll do nothing without your approval nothing [Music] scientists believed in the model law as has acosta created from an Asian summit of olympus no man made those preset they never sleep nor decay with age as men decay they run their courses from immortal sources like a pure and eternal [Music] absolute and in one foolish reaches himself an ambitious man most honors the gods and his demon drives him to serve the state he sets his store by the moral law the gods love him and his people prosper the man should laugh at justice grab what he wants and disregard by his words and actions honesty and truth that in front of holy shrines can he hope to escape the consequences of his rape when a criminal makes off with his loot and the murder becomes king why should I still cling to the old wisdom and morality in song and why should I make them bridges - don't lie or an Indian or any holy face if these manifest truths are not made absolute for every man and the gods warnings promote laughter will know the laws of what comes after [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] had decided senators of Thebes to visit the holiest temples of the city to make sacrifices there with incense and flowers to the all-powerful gods [Music] the king is confused at the moment by his own nightmares and fantasies he can't make balanced judgments or estimate from past experience what is likely to happen which new sensational revelation he takes his truth it is terrified the more I've tried to comfort him but I failed so it seemed sensible to offer prayers first to Apollo whose altar stands nearest [Music] brilliant god of sunlight and healing we stand in the shadow of a curse shine on our darkest corners where there is declare some dirt make us whole and clean like death red snail as we lose our last hope [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] can anyone show me the way to the palace of King Oedipus or better still to the man himself if you know where he is this is the palace and the king is inside this lady is his wife and mother of his children god bless her then and all her family bearing children to such a great man god bless you too son thank you for such a courteous greeting have you traveled here for your own purpose news dear lady good news too for your husband and for his whole family who sent you I come from Korea and my message is bound to please you though it's painful to and will make you sad to begin with one message causing to such opposite reactions tell me the Corinthians will make either king of the homelessness everybody says sir but Paul of us rules in Corinth and has done for years isn't he still King Paul of us is dead my lady and buried Paul abyss is dead the father of Oedipus dead unless I'm a liar in which case strike me dead on the spot you go quickly run to the king o dreamers of dreams fortune tellers where are your predictions now the one man Oedipus has kept clear of all these years for fear he should murder him and that man is dead at long last dead and he depressed had nothing to do with it faster my dearest you called me out from the palace again what's going on man has news for you listen and then tell me what you think of Oracle's with a mystification and mumbo-jumbo who is he what does he have to say it comes from Corinth your father is dead Paul of us do you understand me he's dead who me yourself get it quite clear I can't put it any plainer he's dead alright he's gone the way we all go well then priestess at delphi with her article host i fall of screaming birds prophesying ruin i was the man who would kill my father and my soul has never left it was my prophecy didn't i say so right from the beginning my mother while she's alive i can't be safe they're still that to fear yeah why fear we live our lives at the mercy of chance the purest coincidence no one can predict the future so what's the point of fearing it live enjoy life take each day as it comes as for marrying your mother you're not the first man to have dream that dream every man is his mother's lover in imagination or in dangers it's commonplace if a man dwells on his most private fantasies his life will be worth living believe me that's all very well your celebrations of the woman who brought me into the world happened to be dead too but she isn't not yet she's alive and while she lives somewhere inside me I'm still affair don't bite me asking sir who is this lady who scares you so much the Queen Marabella the dead Kings wife Sita scare you about my friend there was an article once from Delphi dreadful prophecy Oh dreadful to tell a stranger or can anyone here mr. secret Apollo's mouthpiece the Pythia herself told me I was doomed to marry my old mother and kill my father blood earlier with my own hands it's for this reason that I left Corinth and I've stayed away so long prospered as you see abroad but nothing can compensate for the loss of my parents love the pleasure denied me of seeing them face to face and this is the fear that's kept you in exile no other reason was enough I was determined not to kill my father well I came to one will turn and now I can do you another what do you mean oh man of God's sake tell me tell me everything you know this fear of yours that stops you coming home in the fear of the gods prediction should come true you see Paul that about your parents and that rhyme your dream to come because course it is and from the very first moment that fear has never left me pointless sir quite without basis nothing to be scared of at all why I don't understand you if I'm their son who says you're their son no relation at all are you saying this wasn't my father no boy your father but I am just the same relationship in fact the same relationship my father and you how is that possible it's possible because that man was not your father and neither back and why did he call me a son I gave you to him as a present gave me to him but he loved me like a son no father could have done more he had no children and wanted a child what was I then the foundling I'm a slave child bought someone else a bit of it you were found on the mountain in a hollow under some trees up they are on guitars and what were you doing up there looking after the Sheep that was my job journeyman shepherd taking whatever work came that's right and a good thing for you that I was a son because I saved your life no question about that what was I in danger then or in pain in pain look at your ankles they're still swollen up more than normal what's that to do with it no weakness I've had such a child I know you have your ankles but drilled through and tied together I cut you free I must be true and still see the scars I had boy how else did you get your name et for swollen foot well that's what he means gods who would do such a thing to a child my father or my mother don't ask me that ask the other trap the one who gave you to be gave me you didn't find yourself I did not there was another shepherd he gave you to me and asked me to look after you and who is he could you identify him he was always thought of as one of liars Matthias Elias who is king here before King Louis that's the one this chap worked for him and is he still alive where can I see him Oh your own people they should know that this Shepherd and the Shepherd you've already sent for must be identical but ask the Queen she's sure to know Jocasta you know the chef at the bomb we've sent for is it the same man good man what does it matter one shepherd or another none of it matters forget it the whole thing don't pursue it guess it of course I can't forget it nonsense my birth some mystery but with all these clues I intend to solve it listen to me in heaven's name listen if you want to stay alive this search must end it's making me ill I'm sick with it already isn't that enough no need for such clue suppose it proved that I was born a slave from generations of slaves but that sicken you or affect your standings and I'm begging you don't go on and it must go on I must know the truth I know what I'm talking about I'm telling you this for your own good when did I ever put my own good as you call it about the service of the state you're doomed you can't escape I have one wish and one wish only that you never discover who you really are one of you let's accept it here my wife is too proud of her blue blood it's finished all there is to say my last word to you [Music] [Music] [Music] born Olympian brought him to burn an immortal mother maybe Pan who goes rowing the slopes at evening seduced a wild goddess a woodland or scream or Apollo who relishes high pasture rather son from a spirit or Hermes in his summit applying a did it the deep once Thomas's passion of see so long held estates full of thieves I think I can see the man were waiting for I'm making a guess I never set eyes on him but my men are bringing him and he looks the same age as this man from Colin [Music] see the one you should know him you've seen him before I recognize him this is the man he was liar seven and honest as the day now friend from : you speak first this is the man you mean it is you old Shepherd look me in the eye and answer my questions did you work for old King Laius yes sir I did I was born and bred in his service not bought in the market and what was your job here how were you employed for most of my life I've been a shepherd and this fellow here have you ever seen him before what man do you mean how would I know him this man standing here did you have any dealings with him ever that you remember I can't say not just this minute I can't remember girl she's forgotten but I'll soon remind him the days when us two were neighbours up there Anka siren he won't forget that will you he had two flocks that I had won three seasons altogether we were up there the two of us and on the mountain when spring right through to the autumn then I drove my lot down to Corinth and he took his lock down to Thebes to liest place how is that true or isn't it well true enough it's a long time ago in that case you won't have forgotten that boy a baby you gave me you told me to look after it and bring it up as my own why are you asking about that it's years ago and he's a grown man My dear old mate this is that baby Daniel be quiet keep your mouth shut now hello you deserve that sharp tone more than he did my great king brother I done wrong not giving a straight answer to a straight question he was asking you about the child it's just talk he knows nothing he doesn't understand listen if you won't speak willingly you'll be forced to speak I'm an old man don't twist his arms back quickly oh god help me now what am I done what more do you want to know this man here was asking you about a child was it you who gave him that child was it yes it was me I wish I had died that day where did it come from was it your child what did someone give it to you that mine would I give my own child away it came from one of the citizens here what kind of house did that baby comes on thank you sir by all the gods don't ask me that I am asking I must ask again well you see it was born in Liars house slave was it a blood relation among the edge must I say it yes both on the edge must you say they did say it was his but the Queen had no palace she could tell you do you mean she gave it to you yes she did what us to kill it sir her own child yes there was some prophecy she was scared stiff what prophecy there was talk that the boy would kill his father and why in the name of all the gods did you give it to this man I couldn't kill it master I couldn't do it a little boy three days old I thought he'll take it miles away to his own country it'll be all right so he took it and saved its life and now it's all turned out like this if you are that man sir the boy my friend took to Corinth you were mocked out for suffering from the day you were born all of it Oh nothing left to find it all came true every single word let the night come they like has no mercy it shows too much too clearly yes my Parenthood a crime a marriage a crime and that murder committed on my own father [Music] like a shadow thrown in the dust sunlit generations pass into the night and Happiness like a bird in flight flutters and is gone we have seen EDA pustak King brought down to misery suffering grief happiness pain his mortal man's destiny [Music] the master of the Gods reward was kingship and power over men the prize of one hour a brilliant insight from that day he was king in Thebes like a solid wall his power surrounded us and we sang of the benefits of his rule [Music] how can any man endure such merciless agony who was ever marked out by destiny for suffering like him he depress world-famous king when you sucked and fondled at the same breasts of who the flesh keep silent so long we're both Sun [Music] time is at all seen I never searched are big news whether he seems muscular then brings down the night on the father-son who shared a wife and the plant that was spilt son of our murdered King why did you ever come here your destiny gives me choking with tears bringing salvation for us we'll go home [Music] [Applause] [Music] why is better for city if you have any feeling at all for the royal family of Thebes those descendants of lab like us you can't hold back your tears not when you hear what I have to tell you and see yourself the terrible scene in the palace haven't we seen and suffered enough what more is there to say first of all in the plainest language the queen is dead dead how can she be dead oh I'll tell you how she killed herself you haven't seen it and count yourselves lucky I shall never be able to forget it but image will always be with me now I was there I go tell you what happened as accurately as I can when she rushed into the palace in anguish she went straight into the bedroom tearing her hair out and handfuls and muttering like a madwoman she slammed the doors and locked herself in and we heard a shouting something about liars her first husband who's been dead for years and the night they conceived the son who was to kill him and breed misbegotten children on his own mother then it became confused she screamed and beat upon the bed where she had conceived a husband by a husband and children by a child I've heard all that her actual death was behind the locked doors and eat it was broken at that point raving up and down the hall and shouting for a sword so that all our eyes were fixed on him and we all forgot what she was doing that wife of mine that wife and mother he shattered her fertile belly twice it's been harvested me and my children and he suddenly made for the door none of us told him as though some premonition suddenly told him she was there he bellowed and shouted and shoulder charged the doors and kicked them til the bolts and hinges shattered and he stumbled in we saw her slowly turning in the air swinging slightly like a pendulum strung up by the neck she's hand herself to the King Randor her loose the ropes and lifted her down all of our groaning heartbreaking me like an animal he laid her gently on the floor and then this was unbearable the worst of all there were two golden brooches pinned on her dress he opened them up lifted them high in the air at arm's length and place them down into his eyeballs screaming and groaning that his own guilt and suffering were too great for his eyes ever to see it that now they would both be in darkness forever that he would never see again those he should never have seen no I ever loved those he should never have loved that's the way he went on cursing himself and stabbing his eyelids again and again til his face was a mass of blood and tears not drops of blood but like a thunderstorm or cloud burst gushing down his cheek I see any relief or is the pain getting worse he's yelling for someone to unbolt the doors and drag him out so that all thieves will see the father killer and mother I can't say that word in public he's shouting repeatedly that he must be kicked out of the city he's exiled by his own decree he mustn't stay long enough to let the curse fall on his own family but he's in pain and hath his strength is gone poor man he can't see he needs someone to guide him and the physical agony must be worse than any man can bear you'll see yourself the doors are opening Saro and pity you must feel when you see him with your own eyes his worst enemy couldn't wish him this [Music] of any man's eyes never seen sufferings more terrible mine have not won mania what insanity has turned your brain man of all sorrows some demon of the night some destructive impulsive man Farley silently Ranjha working its Charles Brown with inhuman strength howling the job great I am fascinated and repelled in a trance of horror and pity I want to watch your pain and to turn from it I want to learn from your torment I shudder at what the knowledge might mean [Music] I [Music] it is someone you can't see where my legs are taking me that my voice loading like a ghost in front of my face the punishment begins here where will the end be place unspeakable to men's fears hours to dreadful for human eyes to see [Music] this nightmarish blackness surrounds me they shall never see daylight again black cloud a thick fog forever in folds me like a glove pain in my dear gods grind sharper but the pain in my memory cuts deeper this is his life now to do suffer twice over the body shop pain and the minds dollar eight friends are you there you don't desert me still loyal still kind you stay with me although I am blind you give me your care I have no eyes now to see your face but I know that you're here by the sound of your voice while mutilated eyes brought darkness in your mind what demon could bring you to such despair his power determine my agony but these eyes were blinded by my own hands [Music] why eyes to see my own degradation and misery this is the truth simple its beauty comfort eyes like fire but music I'm here to sue such pain but could I ever see y'all to see doubling relieve or cure twice no motive take me from the city no one will ever be more damned no pity for the man old men pass and the gossip the page in the flesh is not mine ignorance made you happy and cut me fever those straps his mercy only made things worse I should have died you know I live on this agony and for those that love me a lifetime of misery better a child's rave my name will be known forever my father's killer my mother's lover born to cause suffering and a sufferer there would be any horror or shame not synonymous with either personally or ever a man more down no never you bring life and exile on your own head by this section you must never say that never what has happened here has happened for the best don't dare tell me otherwise if I could see how could I look my father in the face when I meet him in the underworld who my mother no death could be punishment enough for the holler of what I have done to her all my children whom I love what pleasure for me to see their faces again conceived as they were conceived my eyes are her father's eyes but what they see and this marvelous city in which I was born the greatest among men if I had eyes I could still see its palaces and temples which by my own edik my own folly my own insane determination of Abaddon the murderer of Liars the unclean thing that all men turn away from and the gods hate I mean myself with eyes in my head how could I look anyone in the face even the Theban people in the streets my hearings if I know no way to block up these receivers I'll cut them off from every sound the world makes I'd have done that too without regrets to make a prison cell of my own mind in solitary confinement from the world's no sight or sound of all these horrors could touch me there that would be peace the wastelands like an earth cradled me kept me alive this is naked locks you should have let me die you preserve me to parade before the world a well-kept secret of who my father was and who my mother and qhorin my childhood home and Polybus and Merapi whom i loved and fought my parents how could you imagine what a corrupt man your open face boy would become in his age if ever arose but was sake and rotten within if ever an apple was still pay when maggots let these images describe me in my youth pawn down among the Davin and that triple Junction under the trees an overgrown place where three roads meet to the trees still remember and the shaded pathways what happened there whose blood was spilt my father's my own on the way to Thebes I was that day and what axe I did when I got there on the dead man's wife entering so joyfully the same passage that gave me exit into the world showing my seed in the warm earth when I was germinate a marriage for a monster father brother Sonny bride wife mother children sisters all confused horribly mingled in a liaison to filthy live an angel too corrupt to be remembered anything but no there's no more than nothing what should never have been done should never be spoken all take me away it's up to him now to deal with me he will advise us take action as provisional governor in your place yeah cause there's nothing I can say to him and why should he listen to anything you say I treated them on task I haven't come to crow either thus now you are down nor to accuse you of crimes or misjudgments committed in the past but you people if you have no respect for the common decency the sympathy due to any man's suffering Revere the son at least whose warmth and brightness sustains us the open Street at the end of the day is no place for a thing unclean cursed and sentenced to be cast out not even in the open air on the common earth or under the rain from heaven will he find welcome or shelter take him in his sufferings are no business of the public its private a question of family grief and prayer a matter for his relations not the whole city this is a kindness clear more than I expected in my egg radition your sake not mine let me ask one favor what favor you need not go on your knees get rid of me quickly deport me to some empty wasteland when the human voices never heard I could have done that already of course but it seemed safer as a matter of priority to consult the Oracle that the Oracle has spoken unambiguously he'll love ah the killer drive out the unclean thing I am the magnets true that's what was said but in circumstances as extraordinary as these it seemed safer to consult that God again oh I am the cause of all this pain and the punishment is known what is that alas haven't you a whole men learned to trust the gods yes I've learned that one favor more I must ask or beg the woman who lies dead in the palace let a be buried decently with whatever formalities you think appropriate she's your sister your flesh and blood and you all are that in my case thieves is my country my homeland though I never knew it until today and my present is alive within her walls would be a curse on her let me leave and go up into my own mountains of kathai Oh my mother and father left me there to die in the wilderness and I shall die now in accordance with their wishes who wished me dead my death I know will be mysterious my life was saved miraculously and not for the common death of old age or sickness but for some other envy or inspiring and perhaps evil my children the boys Creole polyneices and eteocles they're almost men and we look after themselves wherever they go but the girls they're so small such babies yet they have shared everything with me food and drink and company I doubt if they've ever so much as eaten a meal away from their father look after the crayon for my sake and I could just once more touch them and share my tears with it just once more kindness and generosity could do no more grasping their hands and remembering I could imagine I had eyes to see that once more are they here already are they crying you have taken pity crayon and brought them to me and asked the dearest of my children am i right I know how much you love them and love them still in spite of everything god bless you creo may you have better luck both as a king and as a man than iPad children where are you come here to me embrace each antic me is mainly these hands on your brother's hands and your father's the hands that blinded me and was blind already if the truth be known I saw nothing as I fathered you on my own mother only a wife was never a man more brains my eyes can't see you now but they can cry still and they do to think what hard lives you will lead in the world when you're grown up the vicious things people will say festivals and public holidays no fun for you they'll be staying at home in tears while the others enjoy themselves and then later when you're old enough to be married where is the man who will be brave or foolhardy enough to take you on and that scandalous reputation that you'll stick to all my children and my children's children their father killed his father then ploughed up the same ground where he sprouted gave his own mother children those girls yes they're his sisters that's the sort of thing people will say and who will marry you in those circumstances nobody will my poor girl's virginity and barrenness is all you can look forward to crayon monoi kiss was your father and you must be their father now as near as kin the two of us who brought them into the world both dead or dead to them they're quite alone apart from you don't let the one that is orphans through the world homeless as well as husbandless and don't condemn them to share the punishment that falls on me they're very young very poor now and if you don't help them quite without hope promise me and take my hand upon the province good well my girls and could understand such things I could tell you so much but we'll leave that now when you say your prayers asked for peace a place to call home and a better life than your father answer that's enough no more tears in public you must go inside no not yet just a moment longer even against your better judgement Oh everything must be done correctly the proper thing at the proper time on one condition no I have your promise I promise just send me into exile that is the god's decision not mine I shall follow their instructions don't all spin there and the gods hate me they hate you they will cast you out but do you agree will you do what I asked no I shall do what I say I will do I'm in your hands then go in I believe the children here the children don't take them away from me don't give me orders those days are over your orders have brought you to Biss now you must learn to obey [Music] you [Music] evil thieves inheritance the ancient city of our ancestors you see either passionately who solved the riddle the she monster said and by his genius saved the state and whose fame for that deed was so great now man would envy him by tidal wave of disasters and into this fray god no man's life until he's dead there are no winners the race is run for no man fortunate or safe from pain till he lies in his last everlasting bed and the earth covers is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oedipus chooses to live and in doing so he makes his most heroic choice of all or even that God's cannot suffer and endure at the close of leader was the King Oedipus has prophesied his own extraordinary end and that of course is the next of the Theban plays Oedipus at Colonus [Music] [Music] what's happening Antigone creme is coming with a squad of soldiers you have been generous to me help me to finish my journey in peace we may be old [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] gentlemen good people of Colonus I can tell from the look of panic in your eyes that you're afraid of me you need not be nor need you shout at me or be abusive I haven't come to make trouble I'm too old for that and this is Athens a city without equal for power and reputation in Greece as I know very well in fact it was probably because of my age that I was chosen to talk to your guests to persuade him back to thieves until next time I'm Michael York [Music]
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