Salley Vickers' dramatisation of her own novel. A strange, unworldly figure appears in Sigmund Freud's Hampstead study to present the truth behind the Oedipus myth that the founder of psychoanalysis so famously made his own. Freud/Oedipus ...... John Hurt Tiresias ...... Paul Rhys Jocasta ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel Shepherd ...... John Rowe Goatherd ...... Jonathan Tafler Other parts played by the cast.