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
L'Orestie (1955) 1955 Théâtre Marigny (Paris, Île-de-France, France), unknown venue (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteia (1955) 1955 Goldsmiths' College (London, Greater London, England)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1955) 1955 Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Oresteia (1956) 1956 Stadttheattern St Gallen (St. Gallen, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland)
The Oresteia (1956) 1956 Catholic University of America (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
The Flies (1956) 1956 Clarendon Press Institute (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Oresteia (1956) 1956 Schauspielhaus (Zurich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland)
Oresteia (1956) 1956 unknown venue (England)
As the Stone Falls (1956) 1956 Irving Theatre Club (London, Greater London, England)
Les Choéphores (1957) 1957
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1957) 1957 unknown venue (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
The Flies (1957) 1957 University College London (UCL) (London, Greater London, England)
Oresteia (1958) 1958 Alfred State College (Alfred, New York, United States)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1958) 1958 Alfred State College (Alfred, New York, United States)
The Oresteian Trilogy (1958) 1958 University of California (Berkeley, State of California, United States)
Oresteia (1958) 1958 unknown venue (Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1958) 1958 unknown venue (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Clytemnestra (1958) 1958 Adelphi Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
Agamemnon (1958) 1958 Mĕstská Lidová Knihovna (Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)
Oresteia (1959) 1959 Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece), Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oresteia (1959) 1959 unknown venue (United States)
La Orestiada (1959) 1959 unknown venue (Mérida, Extremadura, Spain)
The Libation Bearers (1960) 1960 unknown venue (New York City, New York, United States)
La Orestiada (1960) 1960 Teatre Grec, Montjuïc (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), unknown venue (Mérida, Extremadura, Spain), Teatro Español (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
A Japanese Tragedy: Mourning Becomes Mr Mishima (1960) 1960
Orestea (1960) 1960
Oresteja (1960) 1960 Teatr Ludowy, Nowa Huta, Folk Theatre (Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland)
Orestiade (1960) 1960 Ancient Theatre of Syracuse, Teatro Greco (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)
Oresteia (1960 - 1969) 1960 University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Oresteia (1960) 1960 Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)
Choephoroi; Eumenides (1960 - 1968) 1960 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece), Ancient Theatre of Dodona (Dodóni, Epirus, Greece), Teatro alla Scala, La Scala (Milan, Lombardy, Italy), unknown venue (Bulgaria), unknown venue (Denmark), unknown venue (Poland), unknown venue (Germany), unknown venue (Republic of Italy), unknown venue (Spanish State), unknown venue (Sweden), unknown venue (Athens, Attica, Greece), unknown venue (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic)
Oresteia (1960) 1960 Stadttheater (Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland)
The Flies (1961) 1961 University of Waseda (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1961) 1961 Theater Regensburg (Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 unknown venue (Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, Germany)
Die Orestie (1961) 1961 unknown venue (Germany)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1961) 1961 Old Vic (London, Greater London, England)
The Choephori (1961) 1961 City Center of Music and Drama (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 unknown venue (England)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 Chateau Vallon (France)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England), Old Vic (London, Greater London, England)
Les Choéphores et le Procès d'Oreste (1961) 1961 Sorbonne (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteia (1961) 1961 Pagkyprion Gymnasion (Nicosia, Nicosia District, Cyprus), Ancient Theatre of Kourion (Episkopi, Limassol District, Cyprus)
Oresteia (1962) 1962 Mahenovo Divadlo (Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic)
Clytemnestra (1962) 1962 unknown venue (Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Oresteia (1962) 1962 unknown venue (England)
The Oresteia (1962) 1962 Globe Theatre (Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand)
L'Orestie (1962) 1962 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
The Oresteia (1962) 1962 University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, United States)
Clytemnestra (1963) 1963 Empire Theatre (London, Greater London, England), Prince of Wales Theatre (London, Greater London, England), unknown venue (Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland)
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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