History Theatre / OedipusAtColonus

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Theseus.

The play picks up years after the events of ''Theatre/OedipusRex'', with the now blind and beggarly Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arriving at Colonus. They stop to rest in a sacred grove and are confronted by citizens concerned for the sanctity of the place and fearful of Oedipus' curse. Oedipus knows this as a sign of his imminent death and asks for an audience with Theseus, the king of Athens.

* TragicHero: Oedipus is one that has survived from his [[Theatre/OedipusRex tragic fall]] and since gained some measure of dignity back through the blessing his bones will bring to Athens.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Theseus.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: At the centre of the entire tetralogy.

* {{Determinator}}: Oedipus still got it.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Theseus.

* {{I Have No Son}}s: Although Antigone is so great that [[DoubleStandard she is almost a substitute for one]].

* {{I Have No Son}}s: Although Antigone is so great that [[DoubleStandards she is almost a substitute for one]].

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Theseus.

%%* {{Determinator}}: The man's still got it.

%%* HeroOfAnotherStory: Theseus.

* {{I Have No Son}}s: Although Antigone is so great she's almost a substitute for one.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Theseus.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Theseus.

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Theseus.
%%* BigScrewedUpFamily: At the centre of the entire tetralogy.

%%* DownerEnding

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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Inverted actually. In a very static play the abduction of Oedipus' daughters is a suprising moment of frantic action amidst the calm.

* TheMusical: Made into a gospel musical in the 1980s, The Gospel at Colonus.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Theseus.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: At the centre of the entire tetralogy.

* {{Determinator}}: The man's still got it.

* DownerEnding
* DramaticThunder

* LibationForTheDead

* {{Tragedy}}

The second play sequentially of {{Sophocles}}' Theban tetralogy but written last and produced at the Dionysia posthumously.

* DoomedByCanon: Though taken from myth and so obviously a ForegoneConclusion, there's a specific feeling of DoomedByCanon that comes at the end of this play when Antigone and Ismene resolve to go to Thebes to try and stop their brothers. Though ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'' is a sequel, {{Sophocles}} wrote it over thirty years before ''Oedipus at Colonus''.

* LocalReference- Sophocles sets this play in his hometown of Colonus.
* TheMusical - Made into a gospel musical in the 1980s, The Gospel at Colonus.

The play picks up years after the events of ''Theatre/OedipusRex'', with the now blind and beggarly Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arriving at Colonus. They stop to rest in a sacred grove and are confronted by citizens concerned for the sanctity of the place and fearful of Oedipus' curse. Oedipus knows this as a sign of his imminent death and asks to see Theseus, the king of Athens.

The play picks up years after the events of ''OedipusRex'', with the now blind and beggarly Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arriving at Colonus. They stop to rest in a sacred grove and are confronted by citizens concerned for the sanctity of the place and fearful of Oedipus' curse. Oedipus knows this as a sign of his imminent death and asks to see Theseus, the king of Athens.

* DoomedByCanon: Though taken from myth and so obviously a ForegoneConclusion, there's a specific feeling of DoomedByCanon that comes at the end of this play when Antigone and Ismene resolve to go to Thebes to try and stop their brothers. Though ''{{Antigone}}'' is a sequel, {{Sophocles}} wrote it over thirty years before ''OedipusAtColonus''.

* TragicHero: Oedipus is one that has survived from his [[OedipusRex tragic fall]] and since gained some measure of dignity back through the blessing his bones will bring to Athens.

Creon appears to force Oedipus to go to Thebes by [[IHaveYourWife abducting Antigone and Ismene]] but Theseus intervenes. Polyneices also appears to request Oedipus' aid, but upon rejection makes Antigone [[{{Theater/Antigone}} promise to bury him]], knowing he will die. After his exit a [[DramaticThunder thunderstorm]] appears and Oedipus recognizes the moment of his death, bids farewell to his daughters and goes off with Theseus in secret. Despite their grief Antigone and Ismene choose to return to Thebes to try and stop their brother's rebellion.