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Oedipus Rex (1976)

Original id: 
3080
Start date: 
30 April 1976
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Companies:
Toho Company (Ninagawa's company pre-1984)
Ancient works:
Oedipus the King

Information related to this production

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Script Author(s)
Oedipus the King Sophocles AKA Sophokles
Oedipus Tyrannus Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Person Role Notes
Mikijiro Hira Actor Oedipus
Yukio Ninagawa Director
Venue Festival Dates Notes
Nissei Theatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Ninagawa's Works (in Japan) Production chronology archive 2
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000 Book library 192
Ninagawa's Oedipus Rex: Classical Theatre for a Postmodern Audience? Thesis library p.14
Masahiro Kitano's additions and corrections to the APGRD Database listings for Japan, February 2005 Personal notes archive
What Ninagawa did next: notes on productions following the end of Medea in 1999 Talk handout archive
A History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Japan Offprint archive

How to cite this production

Oedipus Rex (1976), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/3080 <27 March 2023>

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