Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)

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Production First performed Venues Companies
Coefore German Military Cemetery (Passo della Futa, Tuscany, Italy)
Off Plan Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
Cindelectra; or, Morningside Becomes Electra Brasenose College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England) OUCDS, Oxford University Classical Drama Society, University of Oxford
Oresteia Gurtycloona Theatre (Bantry, Munster, Republic of Ireland), Ashe Memorial Theatre (Tralee, Munster, Republic of Ireland), Plaza Theatre (Lios Tuathail, Munster, Republic of Ireland), Granary Theatre (Cork, Munster, Republic of Ireland) University College London (DramSoc)
The Oresteia Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States) Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Department of Speech & Theatre)
Oresteia unknown venue (Serbia)
Canzonetta nova de Egisto
Oreste Teatro delle Arti (Republic of Italy)
Oresteia Gradac Park (Dubrovnik, Dubrovačko-Neretvanska Županija, Croatia) Slovenské Národné Divadlo, Bratislava
The Furies [= Oresteia] Tulse Hill School (London, Greater London, England) Tulse Hill School
Oresteia unknown venue (Canada)
The Oresteia Theatre of the Living Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) Southwark Theatre School
Oresteia unknown venue (Hidalgo, Michoacán, Mexico)
Oresteia University of Manchester (Manchester, City and Borough of Manchester, England) University of Manchester (Department of Drama)
Horestes (1550 - 1567) 1550 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
The Four Ages: The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age (1609 - 1613) 1609 Red Bull Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
La Clitennestra (1703) 1703 unknown venue (Siena, Tuscany, Italy) Nobil Collegio Tolomei, Siena
La Clitennestra (1703) 1703 unknown venue (Naples, Campania, Italy) Collegio de' Nobili, Naples
Il Mitridate Eupatore (1707) 1707 Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Agamennone vendicato (1775) 1775 Regio Ducal Teatro (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Agamennone vendicato (1780) 1780 Teatro di via della Pergola (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Oreste (1781) 1781 Teatro di Foligno (Rome, Latium, Italy)
Agamennone vendicato (1792) 1792 Teatro S. Carlo (Naples, Campania, Italy)
Oreste o sia La morte d' Egisto e Clitennestra (1794) 1794 Teatro di via della Pergola (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
The Oresteia (1840 - 1849) 1840
Oreste (1848) 1848 unknown venue (Republic of Italy)
Vingança de Agamemnon (1855) 1855 unknown venue (Portugal)
L'Orestie (1856) 1856 Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Orest: Tragödie von Aeschylos (1868) 1868 unknown venue (Meiningen, Free State of Thuringia, Germany) Saxe-Meiningen Company
Orestes (1869) 1869 unknown venue (Greece) Hellenodramatiki Etaireia
Erinnyes (1873) 1873 Ancient Theatre of Orange (Orange, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Les Erinnyes (1873) 1873 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Les Erinnyes (1876) 1876 Gaîté (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
The Orestean [sic] Trilogy of Aeschylus (1885) 1885 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) Frank R. Benson’s Dramatic Company
The Story of Orestes (1886) 1886 Prince's Hall, Piccadilly (London, Greater London, England)
Les Erinnyes (1889) 1889 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Les Erinnyes (1891) 1891 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteya (1895 - 1896) 1895 Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation)
Les Erinnyes (1897) 1897 Ancient Theatre of Orange (Orange, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Les Erinnyes (1900) 1900 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Orestie (1900 - 1907) 1900 Theater des Westens (1896-) (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany), unknown venue (Strasbourg, Alsace, France), unknown venue (Bremen, Free State of Thuringia, Germany), Nationaltheater (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany), unknown venue (Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), unknown venue (Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), unknown venue (Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland) Akademischer Verein für Kunst und Literatur
Orestie (1900 - 1907) 1900 Burgtheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria), unknown venue (Coburg, Free State of Bavaria, Germany), unknown venue (Gotha, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Orestes: Agamemnon; Das Totenopfer; Die Erinyen (1902) 1902 unknown venue (Leipzig, Saxony, Germany)
Oresteia (1903) 1903 unknown venue (Cairo, Muḩāfaz̧at al Qāhirah, Egypt), unknown venue (Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt), Vasiliko Theatro, Royal Theatre (Athens, Attica, Greece) Vasiliko Theatro, Athens [Royal Theatre]
Oresteia (1903) 1903 Carnegie Hall (New York City, New York, United States) Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Orestean [sic] Trilogy of Aeschylus (1904 - 1905) 1904 Coronet Theatre (Notting Hill, Greater London, England), Camden Theatre (London, Greater London, England), unknown venue (Belfast, City of Belfast, Northern Ireland), unknown venue (Derry, City of Derry, Northern Ireland), unknown venue (Jersey, Jersey), unknown venue (Cheltenham, County of Gloucestershire, England), unknown venue (Stratford-upon-Avon, County of Warwickshire, England), New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) Frank R. Benson’s Dramatic Company
Oreste (1904) 1904 unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
La Fiaccola sotto il moggio (1905) 1905 Teatro Manzoni (Rome, Latium, Italy)
Oresteia (1905) 1905 Carnegie Hall (New York City, New York, United States) Russian Symphony Orchestra
Orestiade [Agamemnon and Choephori only] (1906 - 1907) 1906 L'Argentina (Rome, Latium, Italy), unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany) Compagnia F. Garaviglia
Script Year Contributors
Echoes of Hellas: The Tale of Troy and the Story of Orestes. (1887) 1887 George Charles Winter Warr
Aars! Anatomische Studie van de Oresteia Luk Perceval, Peter Verhelst
Agamemnon and His Daughters Kenneth Cavander
Ariel (2002) 2002 Marina Carr
As the Stone Falls John Boud
Atreus Dawn Abi Basch
Blood Bath Joanna Carrick
Choephori George Thomson
Choephoroe Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Choephoroi Apostolos Melachrinos
Choephoroi Anna Hempstead Branch
Choephoroi Panos D. Apostolidis
Clytemnestra Tadashi Suzuki
Coefore Edoardo Sanguineti
Coefore (1996) 1996 Umberto Albini
Coephori Antonio Cippico, Tito Marrone
Das Lebewohl Elfriede Jelinek
De Oresteia Herman Teirlinck
Die Oresteia-Trilogie H. v. d. Merwe Scholtz
Die Orestie Peter Stein
Die Orestie Staiger
Dzieje Orestesa Jan Kasprowicz
Electra's Laments Roula Pateraki
From the Dead: The Choephori (1974) 1974 Rush Rehm
Good Breeding Robert O'Hara
Grave Gifts David Stuttard
Horestes John Pikeryng
Horestes John Pikeryng
Klytemnestra's Bairns Bill Dunlop
L'Orestie Paul Claudel
L'Orestie Daniel Loayza
L'Orestie André Obey
L'Orestie Alexandre Dumas (père)
L'Orestie François Rey, Nicole Loraux
L'Orestie Gérard Gelas
L'Orestie Olivier Py
La Fiaccola sotto il moggio
La Orestiada José María Pemán, Sánchez Castañer Castaner
La Orestiada Domingo Miras, Manuel Canseco, Rodriguez Adrados
La Orestíada Alvaro del Amo
La Orestiada Jorge Plata
Le Coefore Ettore Romagnoli
Le Coefore Giordano Greco, Giuseppe Marcocci, Giovanni Signore
Le Procès d'Oreste Farid Paya
Les Choéphores Ariane Mnouchkine
Les Choéphores Paul Mazon
Les Choéphores Paul Claudel
Les Choéphores Alexis Pierron (1814-1878)
Les Erinnyes Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Les Mouches Jean-Paul Sartre
Translation Year Contributors
Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide, tome I (extraits) tome II (pièces choisies) (1894) 1894 Aimé Puech (1860-1940)
Eschyle, traduction nouvelle (1872) 1872 Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Eschyle, tragédies (1920) 1920 Paul Mazon
Génie du théâtre primitif grec ou essai d'imitation d'Eschyle (1817) 1817 Henri Terrasson
L'Orestie d'Eshyle, traduction nouvelle par Paul Mazon publiée avec une introdution sur la légende, un commentaire rythmique et des notes (1903) 1903 Paul Mazon
L'Orestie, trilogie tragique (1863) 1863 Paul Mesnard
Le Théâtre des Grecs (1730) 1730 André Charles Brotier, Pierre Brumoy, Pierre Prévost, Guillaume Dubois de Rochefort (1731-1788), Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815)
Les Choéphores (1992) 1992 Jean Bollack, Ariane Mnouchkine
Les Choéphores, Les Euménides (1920) 1920 Paul Claudel
Les Choéphores, Les Euménides (2009) 2009 Mayotte Bollack, Jean Bollack
Les Choéphores, traduction d'AEschyle en vers français avec le texte en regard, par J. J. Puech professeur agrégé de l'université au collège royal Saint Louis (1836) 1836 J.-J. Puech
Les Tragédies d'Eschyle (1865) 1865 Adolphe Bouillet
Les Tragiques grecs (1999) 1999 Victor-Henry Debidour
Oeuvres d'Eschyle, traduites en vers français, par M. S.T.G. Biard (1836) 1836 J. T. G. Biard
Oreste, ou les Coéphores, tragédie d'Eschyle, traduction nouvelle avec des notes (1770) 1770 Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815)
Théâtre antique (1956) 1956 André Bonnard, André Obey
Théâtre d'Eschyle (1841) 1841 Alexis Pierron (1814-1878)
Théâtre d'Eschyle, traduit en français avec des notes philologiques et deux discours critiques (1795) 1795 Gabriel, de François Jean La Porte du Theil (1742-1815)
Tragédies d'Eschyle (1770) 1770 Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709-1784)
Source Date Format Held at APGRD
'L'Orestie' 2000 Programme archive
'Le Coefore' messe in scena … 1957 Image archive
(Dis)placing Classical Greek Theatre 1999 Book library
(En)taseis kai (Dia)staseis: H Hellenike Tragodia kai e Theoria tou Eikostou Aiona [Greek Tragedy and 20th-Century Theory] 1997 Book library
10 photographs featuring Christos Chalvatzaras in the performance of the Orestes monologue 2007 Image archive
1986: 2nd International Meeting of Ancient Greek Drama - Delphi 1986 Poster archive
1986: B' [2nd] International Meeting of Ancient Greek Drama - Delphi 1986 Poster archive
200 Jahre Burgtheater 1976 Programme insert archive
200 Jahre Burgtheater 1976 Programme insert archive
2003 season 2003 Flyer archive
254 Production Photographs 2008 Print-out archive
4 production posters - L'Orestie 1998 Print-out archive
8 Production photographs - The Swallow Song 2006 Photograph archive
A 21st century take on a Greek tragedy: The Asian Age 2015 Print-out archive
A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas, père 1933 Photocopy archive
A blood-thirsty epic heading for Festival 1994 Photocopy archive
A bold new Agamemnon: timely references energize Oresteia trilogy opener 1994 Print-out archive
A brave new National 2003 Newspaper cutting archive
A brief primer on the Oresteia 2001 Print-out archive
A brilliant night with a sad ending 2000 Print-out archive
A century of English ritual 1982 Newspaper cutting archive
A Challenge for Our Time 1999 Photocopy archive
A challenge for our time: The Oresteia 1999 Print-out archive
A chronological list of film adaptations of ancient Greek plays 2000 Personal notes library
A classical first that misses the mark 1995 Print-out archive
A CurtainUp report 2004 Print-out archive
A CurtainUp review: 'The Oresteia' 2000 Print-out archive
A dance of hope and despair 2003 Print-out archive
A family that slays together 1991 Print-out archive
A feeble moment for posterity 1983 Photocopy archive
A Greek classic by way of Romania: a Romanian Oresteia 1998 Print-out archive
A Greek tragedy in Moscow 1994 Photocopy archive
A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers 1891 Print-out archive
A hit and a myth Photocopy archive
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play 1983 Souvenir programme archive
A juicy main squeeze 1991 Print-out archive
A Long Day's Journey into Nightmare 1999 Photocopy archive
A long day's journey into nightmare: The Oresteia 1999 Print-out archive
A Modern Greek among the Ancients 1961 Newspaper cutting archive
A new day, a new theater: Berkeley Rep prepares to move into its $20 million home 2001 Print-out archive
A one-man Oresteia 1994 Print-out archive
A Pilgrim Soul: The Life and Work of Elisabeth Lutyens 1989 Book
A poet's license: Ted Hughes' letters illuminate his personal life and his translation of an ancient work 1999 Print-out archive
A Register of Josef Svoboda's Scenographic and Design Work 2003 Print-out archive
A report to the Classical Association of the Atlantic States 2003 Report archive
A Scenario for the Oresteia 1993 Book library
A Short History of Scene Design in Great Britain 1973 Book library
A tale of two festivals 2004 Print-out archive
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Book library
A timeless Oresteia 1977 Print-out archive
Published Contributors
(Dis)placing Classical Greek Theatre 1999 Savvas Patsalidis, Akis Sakellariou, Yoko Onizuka Chase, Theodoros Grammatas, Iakovos Kambanellis, Kenneth McLeish, Bernhard Reitz, Sara Soncini, Malgorzata Sugiera, Liana Theodoratou, Richard Jones, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Shimon Levy, Nurit Yaari, Marianne McDonald, Jeanette R. Malkin, Susan Hollis Merritt, Ioanna Roilou, Barnard Turner, Dave Williams, Steve E. Wilmer, Freddy Decreus, Erika Fischer-Lichte, John C. Green, Patrick Primavesi, James Diggle, Thalia Papadopoulou, Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, Jina Politi, J. Michael Walton, Evangelos Kritikakos, Aldo Tassi, Heiner O. Zimmermann, Anne Marie Allen, Rob K. Baum, Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou, Kiki Gounaridou, Jennifer Jones, Anthony R. Guneratne, Shani Hadassa
(En)taseis kai (Dia)staseis: H Hellenike Tragodia kai e Theoria tou Eikostou Aiona [Greek Tragedy and 20th-Century Theory] 1997 Savvas Patsalidis
A chronological list of film adaptations of ancient Greek plays 2000 Pantelis Michelakis
A Scenario for the Oresteia 1993 William Whallon
A Short History of Scene Design in Great Britain 1973 Sybil Rosenfeld
A Theatre in the House: The Careys' Globe 1999 Rosalie Carey
Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy: A Theatre Version 1978 Rush Rehm
Aeschylus: Oresteia 1998 Peter Meineck, Helene Foley
Agamemnon 1991 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
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
Aischylus: Oresteia 2002 Petr Borkovec, Matyáš Havrda
Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700 1988 Bruce R. Smith
Ancient Sun, Modern Light: Greek Drama on the Modern Stage 1992 Marianne McDonald
Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption 1992 Bernhard Zimmermann
Apolline Politics and Poetics: International Meeting, Delphi, 4-11 July 2003 2003
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.04.1 (Spring 1996) 1996 Bernard Knox, Herbert Golder, Tony Harrison
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.11.2 (Fall 2003) 2003 Fiona Macintosh, Mark Rudman
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.12.1 (Spring/Summer 2004) 2004 Edith Hall
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Vol.13.1 (Spring/Summer 2005) 2005 David Wiles, Gilbert Murray (1866-1975), Tony Harrison
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
Benson and the Bensonians 1960 J. C. Trewin, Dorothy Green
Cahiers du GITA. Vol.10. Les Choéphores d'Eschyle 1997
Choephoroi 1991 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
Classical Association News. Vol.20 (June 1999) 1999
Classical Association News. Vol.27 (December 2002) 2002
Classical World. Vol.92.3 1999 Matthew S. Santirocco
Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds 2007 Lorna Hardwick, Carol Gillespie, Felix Budelmann, Barbara Goff, James Gibbs, John Djisenu, Michael Simpson, Elke Steinmeyer, Jessie Maritz, Richard Evans, Katharine Burkitt, Cashman K. Prince, Emily Greenwood, Rush Rehm, Stephen E. Wilmer, Freddy Decreus, Michiel Leezenberg, Harish Trivedi, Ika Willis, David Richards
Clytemnestra 2012 Gwyneth Lewis
Coefore 1996 Umberto Albini
Cyprus Today, XLVII.3 (July - September 2009) 2009
Dance Theatre Journal. Vol.22.2 2007 Fiona Macintosh
Die Orestie des Aischylos 1997 Bernd Seidensticker, Peter Stein
Die Orestie des Aischylos auf der modernen Buhne 1997 Anton Bierl
Dionisis Fotopoulos - Scenografo 2002 Dionysis Fotopoulos
Dioniso Volume 7 1939 Antonio Jàcono
Dioniso Volume I 1929 Arturo Calza, Nicolas D. Eghinitis, Angelo Orvieto, Alex. Philadelpheus
Dioniso: Annale della Fondazione INDA. Vol.1 (new series) 2002
Dioniso: Annale della Fondazione INDA. Vol.2 (new series) 2003 Antoine Garapon, Ariane Mnouchkine, Eugenio Barba, Giancarlo Sammartano, Peter Stein
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium 2004 Amanda Wrigley, David Wiles, Edith Hall, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Fiona Macintosh, Froma I. Zeitlin, Helene Foley, Katharine Worth, Kathleen Riley, Lorna Hardwick, Oliver Taplin, Pantelis Michelakis, Peter G. McC. Brown, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Documenta. Vol.19.1 (2001) 2001
Echoes of Hellas: A pianoforte arrangement of the music 1888 Otto Goldschmidt, Malcolm Lawson, Walter Parratt, William Henry Monk
Echoes of Hellas: The Tale of Troy & The Story of Orestes 1887 George Charles Winter Warr, Walter Crane
Eirene. Vol.37 2001 Spiridon D. Siropoulos, Jan Bouzek, Lorna Hardwick, Jan Bazant, Eva Sormova, Eva Stehlíková, Dasa Ciripova
Elektra 1992 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
Elektra 1993 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s 2009 Amanda Wrigley
Epidaurus. The Ancient Theater and the Performances 2004 Savas Gogos, Kostas Ch. Myris AKA Georgousopoulos
Eumenides 1991 Costas Balaskas, Kostas Topouzis
Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth Companion) 2006 Pantelis Michelakis
Title Format Date
A hit and a myth Photocopy
Aeschylus' Oresteia Talk handout
Agamemnon and His Daughters Offprint
Article : Evaggelia Vagopoulou: The Universality of Xenakis' Oresteia Print-out
Audio CD - Coefore di Eschilo: Musiche di Giuseppe Mulè CD
Bericht über die Aufführung der Orestie des Aischylos durch die Schaubühne am Halleschen ufer in Berlin Print-out
Burns Mantle Yearbooks Book
Clytemnestra Photocopy
Clytemnestra - draft script 4 Script
Clytemnestra - draft script 5 Script
Clytemnestra - draft script 6 Script
Clytemnestra - draft script 7 Script
Clytemnestra - draft script 8 Script
Clytemnestra - draft script 9, plus notes Script
Clytemnestra - incomplete draft Script
Clytemnestra - Notes on Draft 8 Handwritten notes
Clytemnestra - Performance Script Script
Clytemnestra - television production - DVD DVD
Clytemnestra Media: Press releases, posters, flyers, media plans, brochures Resource pack
Coefore - Appunti per un'Orestiade italiana di Eschilo secondo Pasolini Print-out
Coefore - production photographs DVD
Die Aufführung griechischer Dramen am Akademischen Gymnasium in Wien Photocopy
DVD of stage productions - Ecuba (1962) and Orestea (1960) DVD
Eumenidi - Appunti per un'Orestiade italiana di Eschilo secondo Pasolini Print-out
Hospitality - early draft Script
John Schlesinger Print-out
Letter re. Iliad Handwritten letter
Mini Documentary: Spettacoli Classici Teatro Greco di Siracusa 1914 - 1948 DVD
Notes on Clytemnestra Handwritten notes
Notes on Draft 6 Handwritten notes
Notes on The Kill Floor Personal notes
NT Programme Notes Programme
Oresteia Photocopy
Oresteia Programme
Pennisi, Francesco Personal notes
Photographs of Tony Harrison's Oresteia notebooks DVD
Photos: Molora (2008) Photograph
Programme: Aeschylus - Choephoroi/Euripides - Electra Programme
Programme: Oresteia Programme
Reconstructions - Theo Angelopoulos Cast list & credits
Review: Timeless desire for revenge: Review Photocopy
Reviews and Previews on Clytemnestra Review
Suzuki, Clytemnestra: summary of written version Synopsis
The Kill Floor - draft script Script
The Kill Floor / Our Sister's Bones - copies of draft script 3 Script
The Oresteia Photocopy
The Oresteia Photocopy
The Oresteia - programme (National Theatre) Brochure
The Story of Orestes Photocopy
The Story of Orestes and The Tale of Troy Flyer