 John Shrapnel, who starred as Creon in the 1986 BBC television version, played the First Elder.Other television portrayals of Oedipus include that of Christopher Plummer (1957), Ian Holm (1972), and Patrick Stewart (1977).Peter Schickele parodies both the story of "Oedipus Rex" and the music of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio of the same name in "Oedipus Tex", a Western-themed oratorio purportedly written by P.D.Q.