The Gospel at Colonus

An African-American musical version of Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. In 1985 PBS televised the original Brooklyn Academy of Music production, as presented by the American Music Theater Festival at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, as part of the Great Performances series.

Directed by Kirk Browning, Lee Breuer

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Cast

Clarence Fountain

Oedipus

Isabell O'Connor

Antigone

Carl Lumbly

Theseus

Jevetta Steele

Ismene

Morgan Freeman

Messenger

The Soul Stirrers

Themselves

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