Original id:
6662
Start date:
1 September 1947
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Adaptation
Production notes:
Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, and repeated on 4 and 22 September 1947.
Media of production:
Radio
Languages:
English
Lysistrata (1947)
Companies:
Ancient works:
Information related to this production
| Script | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| Lysistrata | Andrew Cruickshank |
| Person | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Reginald Beckwith | Actor | Cinesias |
| Leslie Bridgewater | Composer | |
| Sheila Burrell | Actor | Myrrhine |
| Marjorie Clayton | Actor | Lampito |
| Andrew Cruickshank | Actor | Spartan Herald |
| Philip Cunningham | Actor | Magistrate |
| Robert Desmond | Actor | Narrator |
| Shelagh Fraser | Actor | Stratyllis |
| Sibell Gill | Actor | Corinthian Woman |
| Ursula Hanray | Actor | Calonice |
| Noel Illif | Director | |
| Godfrey Kenton | Actor | Bobus, a Policeman |
| Avice Landone | Actor | Lysistrata |
| J. B. Powell-Jones | Actor | Athenian |
| Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| unknown venue (England) |
| Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBC Year Book, 1948 | Photocopy | archive | ||
| The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 | Book | 143 | ||
| Lysistrata by Aristophanes | Photocopy | archive | ||
| Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s | Thesis | library | 201 |
How to cite this production
Lysistrata (1947), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/6662 <9 October 2024>