Agamemnon (1953)

Original id:

850

Start date:

17 February 1953

End date:

21 February 1953

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Original language

Production notes:

The first Cambridge Greek play with a female actor since Janet Case's performance in the 1885 Eumenides (see ID 826).

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Agamemnon	Aeschylus

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Arts Theatre (1936-) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)	Cambridge Greek Play (1953)	17 February, 1953 to 21 February, 1953

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Electra	Programme	archive
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play	Souvenir programme	archive
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus	Book	library
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production	Book	library	353
Antigone of Sophocles	Programme	archive
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960	Book	library	161 n.55
Agamemnon - audiotape recording of stage production	Audiotape	archive
Broadsheet. No.8	Magazine	archive
School plays in Greek	Print-out	archive
Arts Theatre, Cambridge: the Agamemnon of Aeschylus	Photocopy	archive
The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play: 1882-1912	Photocopy	archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	382
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus	Programme	archive

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