Original id:
5610
Start date:
12 April 1960
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Adaptation
Production notes:
Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme at 8.50pm, and repeated on 1 May 1960.
Media of production:
Radio
Languages:
English
Agamemnon (1960)
Companies:
Ancient works:
Information related to this production
| Script | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Agamemnon | Aeschylus |
| Agamemnon | William Alfred (1922-1999) |
| Person | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Judy Bailey | Actor | Cassandra |
| Anne Ford | Actor | Mainas |
| Val Gielgud (1900-1981) | Producer | |
| Denis Goacher | Actor | Aegisthus |
| John Graham | Actor | Aegon |
| Carleton Hobbs | Actor | Moeris |
| Malcolm Keen | Actor | Agamemnon |
| Godfrey Kenton | Actor | Philo |
| Mary Law | Actor | Xanthis |
| Trevor Martin | Actor | Dipsas |
| Edgar Norfolk | Actor | Gnatho |
| Frank Partington | Actor | Trojan Slave |
| Cynthia Pughe | Adaptor | adapted the text for broadcasting |
| Leon Quartermaine | Actor | Eubolus |
| Robert Sansom | Actor | Meno |
| Ronald Sidney | Actor | Guard |
| Michael Turner | Actor | Narrator |
| Mary Wimbush | Actor | Clytemnestra |
| Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| unknown venue (England) |
| Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama: understated furies | Photocopy | archive | ||
| Agamemnon | Photocopy | archive | ||
| A myth refurbished: Agamemnon on the Third Programme | Photocopy | archive | ||
| International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) | Journal | library | 231-232 | 2472 |
| Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 | Book | library | 386 |
How to cite this production
Agamemnon (1960), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/5610 <8 November 2024>