Medea (1920)

Original id:

3353

Start date:

1 February 1920

End date:

31 March 1920

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Translation

Production notes:

Thorndike's first performance as Medea seems likely to have been in February/March 1920 (see e.g. Morley, p.154), not in 1918 (e.g. D. Wilson, p.196) or 1919 (e.g. Medea in Performance, pp.19 and 242).

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Medea

Script	Author(s)
Medea	Euripides
Medea	Gilbert Murray (1866-1975)

Person	Role	Notes
Florence Buckton	Actor
Lewis Casson	Actor
Nicholas Hannen	Actor
Allan Jeayes	Actor
Wilfred Lyndon	Actor
Sybil Thorndike	Actor	Medea

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Holborn Empire (London, Greater London, England)			matinées
Duke of York's Theatre (London, Greater London, England)		4 April, 1920 to 9 April, 1920

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Gilbert Murray OM, 1866-1957	Book	library	196
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000	Book	library	19, 242
Sybil Thorndike: A Life in the Theatre	Book		154
London Illustrated News - Sybil Thorndike as Medea	Newspaper	archive
Miss Sybil Thorndike as Medea, 1920, Photograph by Walter Benington	B&W photograph	archive
Programme: Medea (1920), Holborn Empire	Print-out	archive
Whispers from the Wings (interview with Sybil Thorndike)	Print-out	archive
Extract from J P Wearing, The London Stage 1920-29	Print-out	archive
Review: Euripides and Professor Murray by TS Eliot	Print-out	archive
Extract from Wearing's The London Stage	Print-out	archive

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