Birds

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Production First performed Venues Companies
The Birds University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) University of British Columbia (Department of Theatre)
Birds University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) University of Michigan
The Birds
The Birds Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) Tulane University
The Birds Perse School for Girls, Union Road (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) Perse School for Girls, Cambridge
The Birds Flagstaff Amphitheater (Boulder, Colorado, United States) Nomad Players
Spoken Greek Verse Discourses Ltd
Birds Cleveland State University (Cleveland, State of Ohio, United States), unknown venue (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
Néphélococugie (1578) 1578 Chateau Vallon (France)
Die Vögel (1780) 1780 Ettersburg Palace (Weimar, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
The Birds (1846) 1846 King's Theatre in the Haymarket (London, Greater London, England)
Birds (1883) 1883 St Andrew's Hall Theatre (1882-1895), Theatre Royal, New Theatre (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) University of Cambridge
Birds (1897) 1897 Dulwich College (London, Greater London, England) Dulwich College, London
Vogel (1899) 1899 Neues Theater am Schiffbauerdamm (1892-) (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Birds (1901) 1901 University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) University of Harvard (Harvard Classical Club)
Birds (1901) 1901 Dulwich College (London, Greater London, England) Dulwich College, London
Birds (1902) 1902 Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts, United States) Smith College (Department of Greek)
Birds (1902) 1902 Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York, United States) Vassar College
Birds (1903) 1903 University of California (Berkeley, State of California, United States) University of California, Berkeley
Birds (1903) 1903 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) University of Cambridge
The Bees (1904) 1904 Girton College (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) University of Cambridge (Girton College)
Birds (1906) 1906 Dulwich College (London, Greater London, England) Dulwich College, London
Ptaki [Birds] (1907) 1907 unknown venue (Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland) Jagiellonian University (Akademickie Koło Artystyczne Miłośników Dramatu Klasycznego)
Birds (1911) 1911 Dulwich College (London, Greater London, England) Dulwich College, London
Les Oiseaux (1911) 1911 Théâtre de l'Oeuvre (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Ornithes (1911) 1911 Demotiko Theatro, Municipal Theatre (Athens, Attica, Greece), Demotiko Theatro, Municipal Theatre (Piraeus, Attica, Greece)
De Vogels (1917) 1917 unknown venue (Holland)
Die Vogel (1920) 1920 unknown venue (Germany)
Die Vögel (1920) 1920
Die Vögel (1920) 1920 Nationaltheater (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany)
Die Vögel (1921) 1921 unknown venue (Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Die Vögel (1921) 1921 unknown venue (Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Birds (1924) 1924 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) University of Cambridge
The Birds (1926) 1926 Dulwich College (London, Greater London, England) Dulwich College, London
The Birds (1926) 1926 Lancing College (Lancing, County of West Sussex, England) Lancing College
Birds (1926) 1926 Randolph-Macon Women's College (Lynchburg, Virginia, United States) Randolph-Macon Women's College (Department of Greek)
The Birds (1928) 1928 Festival Theatre, Newmarket Road, Theatre Royal (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) Cambridge Festival Theatre of Terence Gray
Birds (1928) 1928 Konserthusteatern, Concert Hall Theatre (Stockholm, Greater Stockholm, Sweden) Konserthusteatern [Concert Hall Theatre], Stockholm
Les Oiseaux (1928) 1928 Théâtre d'Atelier (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Ornithes (1929) 1929 Theatro Marika Kotopouli (Athens, Attica, Greece) Eleuthera Skini [Free Stage]
The Birds (1929) 1929 St Bartholomew's Grammar School (Newbury, West Berkshire, England) St Bartholomew's Grammar School, Newbury
The Birds (1930) 1930 Dulwich College (London, Greater London, England) Dulwich College, London
The Birds (1932) 1932 Downside School (Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England), Old Castle (Sherborne, County of Dorset, England), unknown venue (Wells, County of Somerset, England), Dinton House (Salisbury, County of Wiltshire, England), Corfe Castle (Wareham, County of Dorset, England), Lancing College (Lancing, County of West Sussex, England), Whitgift School (Croydon Grants, Greater London, England), Kitts' Quarries (Burford, County of Oxfordshire, England), Institution Gardens (Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England), Kingswood School (Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England), St Cuthbert's Girls' School (Bournemouth, County of Dorset, England) Balliol Players, University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Die Vögel (1932) 1932 unknown venue (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Ornithes (1932) 1932 Kollegio Athinon, Athens College (Athens, Attica, Greece) Kollegio Athinon [Athens College]
Ornithes (1932) 1932 University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland) University of Edinburgh (Classical Society)
The Birds (1933) 1933 Alleyn Court Preparatory School (Westcliff, County of Essex, England) Alleyn Court Preparatory School, Essex
The Birds (1933) 1933 Festival Theatre, Newmarket Road, Theatre Royal (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) Cambridge Festival Theatre of Terence Gray
Birds (1934) 1934 Bates College (Lewiston, State of Maine, United States) Bates College (Department of Speech)
The Birds (1934) 1934 University of California (Berkeley, State of California, United States) University of California, Berkeley (English Club)
Script Year Contributors
Birds Peter Meineck
Birds Lydia Prior, Shomit Dutta, Jackson Williams
Birds Kenneth McLeish
Birds Leighton Rollins, Frances Edmond Pole
Birds Stephen Sewell
Birds Sean O'Brien
Birds Ināra Ķemere
Birds Dalila Curiazi
Birds William Arrowsmith
Birds Peter Kleinschmidt
Birds C.W. Marshall AKA Toph Marshall
Birds Dennis Douglas
Boklied [Goat Song] Breyten Breytenbach
Cité des Oiseaux Bernard Chartreux
De Vogels C. Deknatel
Die Hand Vol Vere [A Hand Full of Feathers] André P. Brink
Die Vögel Michael Eberth, Axel Manthey
Die Vögel Walter Braunfels
Die Vögel Christoph Jungck
Die Vogel Wolfgang Schadewaldt
Die Vögel Peter Hacks
Die Vogel Stauros Doufexis
Die Vogel Ludwig Seeger
Die Vogel Johann Gustav Droysen, Ludwig Seeger
Die Vogel Ilka Boll
Die Vogel Ernst R. Leander
Die Vögel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Fåglarna Ivar Harrie, Hjalmar Gullberg
Fowl Iolo Davies
Gli Uccelli Ettore Romagnoli
Izinyoni [Birds] Themi Gwala
La Conférence des Oiseaux Jean-Claude Carrière
Les Oiseaux Pierre Bourgeade
Les Oiseaux Bernard Zimmer
Néphélococugie Pierre Le Loyer (1550-1634)
Orinthes A. Rosolymos
Ornithes Alexis Solomos
Ornithes Vassilis Rotas
Ornithes Nikos Sfyroeras
Ornithes Evis Gavrielides
Ornithes Polyvios T. Dimitrakopoulos
Ornithes Leon Kourkoulas
Ornithes Paulos Matesis
Ornithes Kostis Kolotas
Ptaci Ferdinand Stiebitz
Ptaci Václav Renč
Ptaki Józef Szujski
Ptaki Janina Ławińska-Tyszkowska
Ptaki [Birds] Agnieszka Osiecka
Ptaki [Birds] Artur Sandauer
Source Date Format Held at APGRD
2003 season 2003 Flyer archive
A Greek Festival (Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford) 1994 Programme archive
A Greek satirist who is still topical 1946 Photocopy archive
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play 1983 Souvenir programme archive
A select history of European satire 1997 Seasonal calendar archive
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Book library
Acharnes 2000 Programme archive
Actors Studio to do Birds 1972 Photocopy archive
Aeschylus and Aristophanes take over a baseball diamond 1966 Photocopy archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 2005 Book library
Aldwych Theatre World Theatre Season '65 1965 Festival programme archive
Aldwych Theatre World Theatre Season '69 1968 Flyer archive
Alison Fell / Bernardine Evaristo / Michael Punter Personal notes archive
Alkestis 1982 Programme archive
Allzu später Romantiker: Walter Braunfels' Oper Die Vögel in Köln ausgegraben 1998 Photocopy archive
Als die Vögel einen Staat gründeten 1998 Photocopy archive
Anazoogonitiki epananagnosi ton muthon 2001 Print-out archive
Antigone of Sophocles 1959 Programme archive
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.04.1 (Spring 1996) 1996 Journal library
Aristophane - Dullin 1985 Anthology library
Aristophane Ornithes 1994 Programme archive
Aristophanes in Birdonia 2007 Print-out archive
Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs 2007 Book library
Aristophanes in Philadelphia: The Acharnians of 1886 2003 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes in Slovenian Theatre 2001 Thesis library
Aristophanes play at East Hampton 1937 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' Birds 1994 Programme archive
Aristophanes' Birds 1995 Flyer archive
Aristophanes' Birds 1995 Programme archive
Aristophanes' Birds 2000 Correspondence archive
Aristophanes' Birds 1995 Press release archive
Aristophanes' Birds - Additional Notes 1995 Press release archive
Aristophanes' Birds - Additional Notes - Biographies 1995 Biography archive
Aristophanes' Birds - audiotape of music for Koun version 1959 Audiotape archive
Aristophanes' Birds - CD of Daitz reading 1983 CD archive
Aristophanes' Birds - script 1983 Print-out archive
Aristophanes' Birds revived at Roslyn, L.I. 1938 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' Birds to be revived soon 1938 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' Birds: a high-flying comedy! 1983 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' The Birds 2000 Correspondence archive
Aristophanes' The Birds 1961 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' The Birds 1982 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' The Birds 1979 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes' The Birds 1966 Photocopy archive
Aristophanes, The Birds 2000 Programme archive
Aristophanes: The Birds 2000 Poster archive
Aristophanes’ Birds acted: Cambridge letter to the London Standard, Nov. 28 1883 Print-out archive
Aristophanous Ornithes 1932 Photocopy archive
Art Theatre Week in Aid of the Cambridge Arts Theatre Campaign 1995 Flyer archive
Athens Festival Programme 1966 1966 Festival programme archive
Published Contributors
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Rosalie Carey
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 2005 Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Susanna Phillippo, Michael Ewans, Margaret Reynolds, Yopie Prins, J. Michael Walton, Lorna Hardwick, Massimo Fusillo, Dmitry Trubotshkin, Pierre Judet de la Combe, Anton Bierl, Helene Foley, Rush Rehm, Amanda Wrigley
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.04.1 (Spring 1996) 1996 Bernard Knox, Herbert Golder, Tony Harrison
Aristophane - Dullin 1985 Jean-Louis Barrault, Marie-Claire Pasquier
Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs 2007 Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley, Ewen Bowie, Matthew Steggle, Rosie Wyles, Charalampos Orfanos, Phiroze Vasunia, Gonda A. H. Van Steen, Angeliki Varakis, Bernd Seidensticker, Mary-Kay Gamel, Betine van Zyl Smit, Malika Bastin-Hammou AKA Hammou, Martina Treu, Francesca Schironi, Sean O'Brien, Michael Silk, Vasiliki Giannopoulou
Aristophanes in Slovenian Theatre 2001 Andreja Inkret
Cahiers du GITA. Vol.10. Les Choéphores d'Eschyle 1997
Classical Association News. Vol.26 (June 2002) 2002
Classical Association News. Vol.27 (December 2002) 2002
Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture 2009 Amanda Potter, Amanda Wrigley, Bettany Hughes, Cristian Ghita, Dunstan Lowe, Georgios Andrikopoulos, Gideon Nisbet, Helen Lovatt, Joanna Paul, Kate Fisher, Kim Shahabudin, Paula James, Rebecca Langlands, Susanne Turner
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 1998 Christopher Stray
Die Vögel: Komödie von Aristophanes
Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s 2009 Amanda Wrigley
Greek Tragedy on the American Stage: Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994 1995 Karelisa V. Hartigan
History of Greek Play Production in American Colleges and Universities from 1881 to 1936 1938 Domis Edward Pluggé
Inszenierung der Antike: das Griechische Drama auf der Bühne der Neuzeit 1991 Hellmut Flashar
International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) 2005 Amanda Wrigley, Isobel Hurst, Theodore Ziolkowski
JACT Review. No.24 (Autumn 1998) 1998
Karolos Koun: Kanoume Theatro gia tin Psychi mas [Karolos Koun: We are Doing Theatre for our Soul] 1997 Karolos Koun (1908-1987), Thanassis Kastaniotis, Thanassis Niarchos
Leonard Bernstein: The Harvard Years, 1935-1939 1999 Claudia Swan
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production 1987 J. Michael Walton
Maskenspiele aus Basler Tradition, 1936-1974 1986 Karl Gotthilf Kachler
My World of Theatre 1970 Peter Daubeny, Ronald Bryden
Nel Nome di Dioniso: Vita Teatrale Nell' Atene Classica 1999 Umberto Albini
Omnibus. Issue 29
Omnibus. Issue 37 (January 1999) 1999
Only by Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray 2004 Paul Cornwell
Ornithes 1994 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in New South Wales 2009 Christopher Flynn
Plays International. Vol.16.8 (May / June 2001) 2001
Plays International. Vol.17.10-11 (July / August 2002) 2002
Plays International. Vol.17.12 (September/October 2002) 2002
Plays International. Vol.17.7 (April / May 2002) 2002
Plays International. Vol.17.8 (May / June 2002) 2002
Plays International. Vol.17.9 (June / July 2002) 2002
Plays International. Vol.18.12 (September / October 2003) 2003
Plays International. Vol.18.12 (September/October 2003) 2003
Production Records for Persai; Philoktetes; Medeia; Orinthes; Dyskolos (Pilot Phase Results) 1999
Production Records for: Persai; Epta epi Thivas; Iketides; Aias; Philoktetes; Medeia; Electra; Ornithes; Ploutos; Dyskolos; Samia; Epitrepontes 2000
Reception Studies 2003 Lorna Hardwick
Rolling out the Red Carpet: Power 'Play' in Modern Greek Versions of the Myth of Orestes from the 1960s and 1970s. Part I 2002 Gonda A. H. Van Steen
Sophocles Revisited: Essays Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones 1999 Bernard Knox, Edith Hall, Gregory Hutchinson, Jasper Griffin, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Malcolm Heath, Martin L. West, Netta Zagagi, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Richard Stoneman, Robert Fowler, Stephanie West
Teatr Grecki i Polski 1984 Stefan Srebrny
The 'Birds' of Aristophanes, as Arranged for Performance in the Original Greek at Cambridge 1924 A. W. Verrall, Sir John T. Sheppard AKA J. Sheppard
The Bees: An Aristophanic Comedy of Oxford 1968 Frank Lepper
The Birds 2002 Sean O'Brien
The Birds 2003 Sean O'Brien
The Living Aristophanes 1974 Alexis Solomos
The Other Theatre 1947 Norman Marshall
The Oxford Amateurs: A Short History of Theatricals at the University 1910 Alan Murray Mackinnon (b.1860), James Adderley
Title Format Date
Alison Fell / Bernardine Evaristo / Michael Punter Personal notes
Burns Mantle Yearbooks Book
Die Aufführung griechischer Dramen am Akademischen Gymnasium in Wien Photocopy
Harry Froklage's reflections on The Birds (1980) - May 2014 Print-out
Images from Cambridge Greek plays Image
Music - two-piano score Photocopy
Performances of Greek Drama at Wellesley, Massachusetts Production chronology
Photocopy of external page of The Birds programme Photocopy
Photocopy of internal page of The Birds Programme Photocopy
Photograph of Poster Collage Photocopy
Photographs of Berkeley Amphitheater - including The Birds (id 4361) B&W photograph
Script: The Birds: An adaptation of Aristophanes' Comedy by Harry Froklage Print-out
The Aquila Theatre Company: the company Print-out
The Birds Photocopy
The Birds Photocopy
The Birds Photocopy
The Birds Programme
The Birds Photocopy
Theatrical activity of the Classic Liceum of Roseto degli Abruzzi Listing
Illustrated London News : Review with sketch from the production Photocopy 1846
The Birds : 9 newspaper reviews Photocopy 1846
The Birds of Aristophanes Photocopy 1846
The Birds of Aristophanes Photocopy 1846
The Times Review of The Birds 1846 Print-out 1846
Aristophanes’ Birds acted: Cambridge letter to the London Standard, Nov. 28 Print-out 1883
The Birds at Cambridge Print-out 1883
The Birds at Cambridge Print-out 1883
The Birds of Aristophanes Print-out 1883
The Birds of Aristophanes Programme 1883
The play's the thing Anthology 1883
The Birds of Aristophanes: A Series of Etchings Photocopy 1884
Greek play at Cambridge Photocopy 1903
The Birds of Aristophanes Programme 1903
The Bees: With Humblest Apologies to the Shade of Aristophanes Photocopy 1904
The San Francisco call - "Ajax a highly effective drama" Print-out 1904
Fasciculus Joanni Willis Clark Dicatus Photocopy 1909
Greek Plays in America Print-out 1910
Sir Hubert Parry Print-out 1919
The Birds of Aristophanes Programme 1924
The Birds of Aristophanes at Cambridge Photocopy 1924
The Lancing College Magazine Photocopy 1927
Aristophanous Ornithes Photocopy 1932
Greek comedy at preparatory school Photocopy 1933
Carnival of comedy Photocopy 1934
Bar Harbor colony sees Greek play Photocopy 1935
Birds Photocopy 1935
The Birds at Oxford Photocopy 1935
Aristophanes play at East Hampton Photocopy 1937
Birds by Aristophanes Photocopy 1937
Women of Randolph-Macon College in annual Greek play Photocopy 1937