The Invention of Love (2000)

Original id: 
14401
Start date: 
9 February 2000
End date: 
2 April 2000
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Stoppard's play about A.E. Housman, in the underworld. He is met by Charon (who guides him over the Styx), Oscar Wilde, and various classical scholars. Also mentions various poets and playwrights.
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
English
Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script Author(s)
Aeneid Virgil
Carmina Catullus
Person Role Notes
Tom Stoppard Writer
Blanka Zizka Director
Venue Festival Dates Notes
Wilma Theater (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) 9 February, 2000 to 1 April, 2000
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
'A Tale of Two Housmans' - Daniel Mendelsohn in New York Review of Books Newspaper cutting archive

How to cite this production

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