Oedipus rex of Sophocles - Sophocles Oedipus

After a research I have made about the Theatre of Delphi, I have found a 1972 article, referring to the performance of Oedipus Rex in 1951. Trying to transfer here as accurately as I can the words of the journalist, I hope you can travel back to this magnificent as it seems- performance;

Performed in the late afternoon, the program was so timed that when Oedipus had gouged out his eyes with his own hands after being convinced of his crimes of parricide and incest, the glow had faded from the Phaedriades and the warm blue, pink and mauve tints on the sides of the enclosing hills had turned dun-gray.


		Phaedriades "The shinning stones" It is true that the visitor of Theater of Delphi can obtain a panoramic bird's-eye view of the sanctuary and the convulsed landscape that it enclosed it. At the sunset the Phaedriades glow coral pink and the soft blue light spreads. They are a pair of cliffs on the lower southern slope of Mount Parnassus (ca 700m high)