Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)

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

Production First performed Venues
Cindelectra; or, Morningside Becomes Electra Brasenose College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Oresteia University of Manchester (Manchester, City and Borough of Manchester, England)
Oreste Teatro delle Arti (Republic of Italy)
Canzonetta nova de Egisto
The Oresteia Theatre of the Living Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
Oresteia unknown venue (Canada)
Oresteia Gurtycloona Theatre (Bantry, Munster, Republic of Ireland), Ashe Memorial Theatre (Tralee, Munster, Republic of Ireland), Plaza Theatre (Lios Tuathail, Munster, Republic of Ireland), Granary Theatre (Cork, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
The Furies [= Oresteia] Tulse Hill School (London, Greater London, England)
Coefore German Military Cemetery (Passo della Futa, Tuscany, Italy)
Oresteia unknown venue (Hidalgo, Michoacán, Mexico)
Off Plan Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
The Oresteia Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States)
Oresteia unknown venue (Serbia)
Oresteia Gradac Park (Dubrovnik, Dubrovačko-Neretvanska Županija, Croatia)
Horestes (1550 - 1567) 1550 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
The Four Ages: The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age (1609 - 1613) 1609 Red Bull Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
La Clitennestra (1703) 1703 unknown venue (Naples, Campania, Italy)
La Clitennestra (1703) 1703 unknown venue (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
Il Mitridate Eupatore (1707) 1707 Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Agamennone vendicato (1775) 1775 Regio Ducal Teatro (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Agamennone vendicato (1780) 1780 Teatro di via della Pergola (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Oreste (1781) 1781 Teatro di Foligno (Rome, Latium, Italy)
Agamennone vendicato (1792) 1792 Teatro S. Carlo (Naples, Campania, Italy)
Oreste o sia La morte d' Egisto e Clitennestra (1794) 1794 Teatro di via della Pergola (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
The Oresteia (1840 - 1849) 1840
Oreste (1848) 1848 unknown venue (Republic of Italy)
Vingança de Agamemnon (1855) 1855 unknown venue (Portugal)
L'Orestie (1856) 1856 Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Orest: Tragödie von Aeschylos (1868) 1868 unknown venue (Meiningen, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Orestes (1869) 1869 unknown venue (Greece)
Erinnyes (1873) 1873 Ancient Theatre of Orange (Orange, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Les Erinnyes (1873) 1873 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Les Erinnyes (1876) 1876 Gaîté (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
The Orestean [sic] Trilogy of Aeschylus (1885) 1885 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
The Story of Orestes (1886) 1886 Prince's Hall, Piccadilly (London, Greater London, England)
Les Erinnyes (1889) 1889 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Les Erinnyes (1891) 1891 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteya (1895 - 1896) 1895 Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation)
Les Erinnyes (1897) 1897 Ancient Theatre of Orange (Orange, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Les Erinnyes (1900) 1900 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Orestie (1900 - 1907) 1900 Theater des Westens (1896-) (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany), unknown venue (Strasbourg, Alsace, France), unknown venue (Bremen, Free State of Thuringia, Germany), Nationaltheater (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany), unknown venue (Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), unknown venue (Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), unknown venue (Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland)
Orestie (1900 - 1907) 1900 Burgtheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria), unknown venue (Coburg, Free State of Bavaria, Germany), unknown venue (Gotha, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Orestes: Agamemnon; Das Totenopfer; Die Erinyen (1902) 1902 unknown venue (Leipzig, Saxony, Germany)
Oresteia (1903) 1903 Carnegie Hall (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteia (1903) 1903 unknown venue (Cairo, Muḩāfaz̧at al Qāhirah, Egypt), unknown venue (Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt), Vasiliko Theatro, Royal Theatre (Athens, Attica, Greece)
The Orestean [sic] Trilogy of Aeschylus (1904 - 1905) 1904 Coronet Theatre (Notting Hill, Greater London, England), Camden Theatre (London, Greater London, England), unknown venue (Belfast, City of Belfast, Northern Ireland), unknown venue (Derry, City of Derry, Northern Ireland), unknown venue (Jersey, Jersey), unknown venue (Cheltenham, County of Gloucestershire, England), unknown venue (Stratford-upon-Avon, County of Warwickshire, England), New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Oreste (1904) 1904 unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Oresteia (1905) 1905 Carnegie Hall (New York City, New York, United States)
La Fiaccola sotto il moggio (1905) 1905 Teatro Manzoni (Rome, Latium, Italy)
Orestiade [Agamemnon and Choephori only] (1906 - 1907) 1906 L'Argentina (Rome, Latium, Italy), unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Script Contributors Year Relationship
Oresteia Peter Meineck, Graham Mitchell, Dirk Obbink Translation
Oresteia Peter Meineck, Graham Mitchell, Dirk Obbink Translation
The Oresteia David Johnston Adaptation
Oresteja Stefan Srebrny Translation
Oresteja Stefan Srebrny Translation
Blood Bath Joanna Carrick Adaptation
Oresteia David Grene, Wendy O'Flaherty Translation
Le Coefore Giordano Greco, Giuseppe Marcocci, Giovanni Signore Translation
Le Coefore Giordano Greco, Giuseppe Marcocci, Giovanni Signore Translation
The Oresteia James Dunn, Carla Smith-Zilber Adaptation
Oresteia Iason Demos, Yiannis Papatheodorou Adaptation
Le Coefore Giordano Greco, Giuseppe Marcocci, Giovanni Signore Translation
Oresteia Iason Demos, Yiannis Papatheodorou Adaptation
Atreus Dawn Abi Basch Distant relative
L'Orestie François Rey, Nicole Loraux Translation
L'Orestie François Rey, Nicole Loraux Translation
La Orestiada José María Pemán, Sánchez Castañer Castaner Adaptation
La Orestiada Domingo Miras, Manuel Canseco, Rodriguez Adrados Adaptation
The Serpent Son Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeish Translation
Libation Bearers Keith Scales, Peter Montgomery Translation
La Orestiada Domingo Miras, Manuel Canseco, Rodriguez Adrados Adaptation
Libation Bearers Keith Scales, Peter Montgomery Translation
Electra's Laments Roula Pateraki Cut and paste
Oresteia Petr Borkovec, Matyáš Havrda Translation
Good Breeding Robert O'Hara Adaptation
Grave Gifts David Stuttard Translation
Klytemnestra's Bairns Bill Dunlop Adaptation
The Orphan David Rabe Distant relative
Choephoroi Panos D. Apostolidis Translation
Off Plan Simon Doyle Adaptation
Oresteia Tom Blokdijk Adaptation
Vingança de Agamemnon H. Ayres Victoria Adaptation
The Oresteia Leo Brady Adaptation
The Serpent Son Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeish Translation
La Orestiada Domingo Miras, Manuel Canseco, Rodriguez Adrados Adaptation
Oresteia Jesih Milan Translation
Příbĕh Électry [Story of Electra] Johana Kudláčková, Irena Žantovská Adaptation
Die Orestie Staiger Translation
Choephori George Thomson Translation
The Furies Lisa Wright Adaptation
Choephoroi Anna Hempstead Branch Translation
Oresteia Dimitris Dimitriadis Translation
Oresteia Alexandre Venkstern
La Orestíada Alvaro del Amo Adaptation
Orestea (una commedia organica?) Romeo Castellucci Adaptation
As the Stone Falls John Boud Adaptation
Oresteia (including a version of Proteus) William Whallon Adaptation
Oresteia Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) Translation
The Supper Iakovos Kambanellis Distant relative
The Oresteia Michael Townsend Translation

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