Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)

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Contributor Contribution Main contributor
Aeschylus
Original id: 
440
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Information related to this script

Production First performed Venues
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1932) 1932 University of California (Berkeley, State of California, United States)
The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; Choephoroe; Eumenides (1933) 1933 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Choephori (1933) 1933 University of California (Los Angeles, State of California, United States)
The Oresteia (1933) 1933 Gate Theatre (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
Coefore (1935) 1935 unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Choephori (1935) 1935 Agnes Scott College (Atlanta, State of Georgia, United States)
Daughters of Atreus (1936) 1936 unknown venue (United States), 44th Street Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
Die Orestie (1936) 1936 Königliches Schauspielhaus / Konzerthaus (1821-), Königliches Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater, Staatstheater Großes Haus, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Konzerthaus (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1937 - 1938) 1937 Westminster Theatre (London, Greater London, England), New Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oresteja (1938) 1938 Teatr Miejski na Pohulance, Municipal Theatre (Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania)
Oresteya (1939) 1939 Moscow Conservatory of Music (Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Oresteia (1939) 1939 unknown venue (Greece)
Orestie (1941) 1940 Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1941) 1940 Forest Theater Guild (Carmel, State of California, United States)
Orestie (1942) 1941 unknown venue (Zurich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland)
Orestie (1942) 1941 Preussisches Staatstheater (Kassel, Hesse, Germany)
Les Mouches (1943) 1942 Théâtre de la Cité (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteya (1945) 1944 House of the Actor (Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Flugorna [Les Mouches] (1945) 1944 Dramatiska Teatern (Stockholm, Greater Stockholm, Sweden)
Choephoroi (1945) 1944 Theatro Aliki (Athens, Attica, Greece)
De Oresteia (1946) 1946 Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg (KNS), Royal Theatre (Gent, Flanders, Belgium)
Les Mouches (1947) 1947 unknown venue (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteja (1947) 1947 Teatr Polski (Warszaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
Oresteia (1947) 1947 Národní Divadlo (Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) 1947 unknown venue (United States)
The Flies (1947) 1947 unknown venue (England)
The Flies (1948) 1948 Magdalen College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1948) 1948 Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Birmingham, County of Worcestershire, England)
Orestea (1948) 1948 Ancient Theatre of Syracuse, Teatro Greco (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)
The Choephorae [sic] (1948 - 1953) 1948 Old Vic (London, Greater London, England)
Oresteia (1949) 1949 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oreste (1949) 1949 Teatro Quirino (Rome, Latium, Italy)
Les Choéphores (1949 - 1950) 1949 Sorbonne (Paris, Île-de-France, France), Universität Mainz (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
The Choephori (1950) 1950 Rideau de Bruxelles (Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium)
Oresteia (1950) 1950 unknown venue (Egypt), Kourion Ancient Theatre (Cyprus), unknown venue (Greece), unknown venue (Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey)
Libation Bearers (1950) 1950 unknown venue (Seattle, Washington, United States)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1950) 1950 ANTA (American National Theatre & Academy) Playhouse (New York City, New York, United States)
Les Mouches (1951) 1951 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Les Mouches (1951) 1951 University of San José State (San Jose, State of California, United States)
Oreste (1951) 1951 unknown venue (Republic of Italy)
Oresteia (1951) 1951 Deutsches Schauspielhaus (1900-) (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
Oresteia [Agamemnon and Choephoroi] (1952) 1952 Open-Air Theatre (Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey), Kourion Ancient Theatre (Cyprus), Antoniades' Garden (Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt), unknown venue (Cairo, Muḩāfaz̧at al Qāhirah, Egypt), unknown venue (Port Said, Muḩāfaz̧at Būr Sa‘īd, Egypt)
The Oresteia (1952) 1952 Wright Junior College (Chicago, State of Illinois, United States)
Oresteia (1953) 1953 University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Oresteia (1953) 1953 unknown venue (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Randolph-Macon Women's College (Lynchburg, Virginia, United States)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Knox College (Galesburg, State of Illinois, United States)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Dramatiska Teatern (Stockholm, Greater Stockholm, Sweden)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1955) 1955 Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Script Contributors Year Relationship
The Ungentle Ones Alan Kilburn Adaptation
L'Orestie Gérard Gelas Adaptation
De Oresteia Herman Teirlinck Adaptation
Libation-Bearers Josef Král
Oresteia Josef Král Translation
Oresteia Silviu Purcarete Adaptation
Les Choéphores Ariane Mnouchkine Adaptation
Oresteia Richmond Lattimore Translation
Oresteia Untersteiner Translation
Orestie Dietrich Ebener Translation
Oresteia Holk Freytag Adaptation
Orestea Emanuele Severino Translation
Mourning Becomes Electra (The Homecoming; The Hunted; The Haunted) Eugene O'Neill Adaptation
Oreste Vittorio Alfieri Adaptation
The Sanctuary Lamp Thomas Murphy Adaptation
The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age Thomas Heywood Distant relative
Orestie Johann Gustav Droysen Translation
The Golden Masque of Agamemnon John Wiles Adaptation
L'Orestie Alexandre Dumas (père) Adaptation
Oresteia Georgios Sotiriades Translation
Agamemnon and His Daughters Kenneth Cavander Adaptation
Libation-Bearers Tasos Roussos
The Oresteia Sir John T. Sheppard AKA J. Sheppard Translation
Oresteia G. Dilboi Translation
The Oresteia Tim Soulis Adaptation
Oresteia Thanasis Valtinos Translation
Oresteia Kostas Ch. Myris AKA Georgousopoulos Translation
Coefore Edoardo Sanguineti Translation
Choephoroi Apostolos Melachrinos Translation
The Oresteia Life Blumberg Adaptation
La Orestiada Jorge Plata Adaptation
The Oresteia James Harrington Adaptation
Orestes [= Oresteia] Basil Davenport Translation
Das Lebewohl Elfriede Jelinek Adaptation
Horestes John Pikeryng Distant relative
Horestes John Pikeryng Distant relative
Oresteia James Aitken, Jude Domski Adaptation
Oresteia Ernst Buschor Translation
Oresteia James Aitken, Jude Domski Adaptation
Oresteia Philip Vellacott Translation
Oresteia Ioannis Chioles Translation
Oresteia Leticia Agudo Adaptation
Oresteia Constantine A. Trypanis Translation
Oresteia Vladimír Šrámek Translation
Oresteia Ioannis Gryparis Translation
Oresteia Bogdanovic Translation
The Kentucky Cycle Robert Schenkkan Distant relative
Oresteia Peter Meineck, Graham Mitchell, Dirk Obbink Translation
L'Orestie Daniel Loayza Translation
The Mourners Yuval Sharon Adaptation

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