A History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Japan

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Production First performed Venues
Mata-mata Igai [Surprizes One After Another] (1894) 1894 unknown venue (Japan)
Oedipus Rex (1916) 1916 unknown venue (Japan)
Oedipus Rex (1933) 1933 unknown venue (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Lysistrata (1954) 1954 Haiyuu-za (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Oedipus Rex (1958) 1958 Hibiya Amphitheatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Antigone (1959) 1959 Hibiya Amphitheatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Antigone (1960) 1960 unknown venue (Japan)
Prometheus Bound (1960) 1960 Hibiya Amphitheatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Oedipus Rex (1961) 1961 unknown venue (Japan)
Agamemnon (1961) 1961 Hibiya Amphitheatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Philoctetes (1962) 1962 Hibiya Amphitheatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Ajax (1964) 1964 unknown venue (Japan)
Persae (1965) 1965 Hibiya Amphitheatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Electra (1966) 1966 unknown venue (Japan)
Oedipus Rex (1967) 1967 unknown venue (Japan)
Electra (1967) 1967 unknown venue (Japan)
Oedipus (1971) 1971 unknown venue (Japan)
Medea (1971) 1971 unknown venue (Japan)
Lysistrata (1972) 1972 unknown venue (Japan)
Agamemnon (1972) 1972 unknown venue (Japan)
Toroia no Onnna [ Trojan Women ] (1974) 1974 Iwanami Hall (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Lysistrata (1976) 1976 unknown venue (Japan)
Oedipus Rex (1976) 1976 Nissei Theatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
The Bacchae (1978) 1978 Iwanami Hall (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Inaka-Oyaji Sokrates-wo Oda Shitaru Koto [An Old Farmer Beats Socrates] (1978) 1978 unknown venue (Japan)
Medea (1978) 1978 Nissei Theatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Medea (1979) 1979 Sankei Hall (Ōsaka, Ōsaka-fu, Japan)
The Bacchae (1981 - 1982) 1981 La MaMa e.t.c., Experimental Theatre Club (New York City, New York, United States), University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, United States), unknown venue (Toga, Akita-ken, Japan), unknown venue (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Medeia (1983) 1983 unknown venue (Athens, Attica, Greece), Ashai Theatre (Ōsaka, Ōsaka-fu, Japan), unknown venue (Rome, Latium, Italy)