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
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1932) 1932 University of California (Berkeley, State of California, United States)
The Oresteia (1933) 1933 Gate Theatre (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
Choephori (1933) 1933 University of California (Los Angeles, State of California, United States)
The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; Choephoroe; Eumenides (1933) 1933 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
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)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1941) 1940 Forest Theater Guild (Carmel, State of California, United States)
Orestie (1941) 1940 Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
Orestie (1942) 1941 Preussisches Staatstheater (Kassel, Hesse, Germany)
Orestie (1942) 1941 unknown venue (Zurich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland)
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)
The Flies (1947) 1947 unknown venue (England)
Oresteja (1947) 1947 Teatr Polski (Warszaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
Oresteia (1947) 1947 Národní Divadlo (Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)
Les Mouches (1947) 1947 unknown venue (New York City, New York, United States)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) 1947 unknown venue (United States)
Orestea (1948) 1948 Ancient Theatre of Syracuse, Teatro Greco (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1948) 1948 Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Birmingham, County of Worcestershire, England)
The Flies (1948) 1948 Magdalen College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
The Choephorae [sic] (1948 - 1953) 1948 Old Vic (London, Greater London, England)
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)
Oresteia (1949) 1949 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
The Choephori (1950) 1950 Rideau de Bruxelles (Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium)
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)
Oresteia (1950) 1950 unknown venue (Egypt), Kourion Ancient Theatre (Cyprus), unknown venue (Greece), unknown venue (Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey)
Oreste (1951) 1951 unknown venue (Republic of Italy)
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)
Oresteia (1951) 1951 Deutsches Schauspielhaus (1900-) (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
The Oresteia (1952) 1952 Wright Junior College (Chicago, State of Illinois, United States)
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)
Oresteia (1953) 1953 unknown venue (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
Oresteia (1953) 1953 University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Randolph-Macon Women's College (Lynchburg, Virginia, United States)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Dramatiska Teatern (Stockholm, Greater Stockholm, Sweden)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oresteia (1954) 1954 Knox College (Galesburg, State of Illinois, United States)
L'Orestie (1955) 1955 Théâtre Marigny (Paris, Île-de-France, France), unknown venue (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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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