The Swallow Song (2004)

Original id: 
8269
Start date: 
21 October 2004
End date: 
24 October 2004
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Translation
Production notes: 
The order of play: I The Swallow Song; II Sappho Fragments; III Simonides Fragment; IV The Shield of Achilles from Homer's Iliad; V Sappho Fragments; VI From Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians and Iphigeneia at Aulis; VII The Shield of Achilles from Homer's Iliad; VIII From Euripides' Trojan Women Part 1; IX Sappho Fragments; X From Euripides' Trojan Women Part 2; XI Choral Stasimon from Aeschylus' Agamemnon; XII From Aeschylus' Choephoroi; XIII From Pindar's Eighth Pythian Ode; XIV From Sophocles' Oedipus the King; XV Passage from the Poems of Theognis; XVI Scenes from Euripides' Ion; XVII The Swallow Song.
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
English

Information related to this production

Person Role Notes
Takis Farazis Composer
Dionysis Fotopoulos
Martha Frintzila Actor Klytemnestra / Narrator
Nikos Karathanos Actor Talthybius / Oedipus
Lydia Koniordou Actor Iphigeneia in Tauris / Andromeda / Jokasta / Kreousa
Lydia Koniordou Director
Christos Loulis Actor Narrator / Orestes / Ion
Tanya Papadopoulou Actor Danae / Hecuba
Oliver Taplin Translator
Georgia Tsangaraki Actor Iphigeneia in Aulis / Kassandra/ Narrator
Venue Festival Dates Notes
Getty Center (Los Angeles, State of California, United States) 20 October, 2004 to 23 October, 2004 in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium

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The Swallow Song (2004), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/8269 <25 April 2024>