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
Les Erinnyes (1907) 1907 Ancient Theatre of Orange (Orange, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Oresteia (1907) 1907 Národní Divadlo (Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic)
Choephoroi (1908) 1908 Empire Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteia (1909) 1909 Theatro Athinaion (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Orestie (1909) 1909 Burgtheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Dzieje Orestesa (1910) 1910 Teatr Miejski im. Juliusza Słowackiego, Municipal Theatre (Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland)
Orestes (1910) 1910
Oresteia (1911 - 1912) 1911 Theatro Marika Kotopouli (Athens, Attica, Greece), unknown venue (Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey)
Orestie (1911 - 1912) 1911 Musikfesthalle (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany), Zirkus Schumann (-1918) (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Oresteia (1911) 1911 unknown venue (Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)
Choephoroe (1912) 1912 University of Manchester (Manchester, City and Borough of Manchester, England)
Libation-Bearers (1915) 1915 Newbury Grammar School (Newbury, West Berkshire, England)
Oresteya (1915) 1915 Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation)
Oresteia (1917) 1917 Stadttheater (Zurich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland)
Oresteya (1917 - 1918) 1917 Theatre of the Council of Workers' Deputies (Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Oresteya (1917 - 1918) 1917 Zimin Opera House (Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Oresteia (1918) 1918 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Einfach klassisch! Eine Orestie mit glücklichem Ausgang [ Simply Classical - The Oresteia With a Happy Ending ] (1919) 1919 Zirkus Schumann (-1918) (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Orestie (1919) 1919 Königliches Schauspielhaus / Konzerthaus (1821-), Königliches Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater, Staatstheater Großes Haus, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Konzerthaus (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Orest (1919) 1919 unknown venue (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Les Choéphores (1919) 1919 unknown venue
Orestie (1920) 1920 Schauspielhaus (Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
The House of Atreus: Agamemnon and Choephoroe (1920) 1920 Music Hall (Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland)
Oresteia (1920) 1920 unknown venue (Slovenia)
Oresteia (1921) 1921 unknown venue (England)
The Oresteian Trilogy (1921) 1921 New Theatre Royal (-1933) (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Le Coefore (1921) 1921 Ancient Theatre of Syracuse, Teatro Greco (Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)
Agamemnon (1922) 1922 Chiswick Empire (London, Greater London, England)
The Curse of the House of Atreus (1923) 1923 Bromsgrove School (Bromsgrove, County of Worcestershire, England), unknown venue (Shrewsbury, County of Shropshire, England), Ludlow Castle (Ludlow, County of Shropshire, England), unknown venue (Hereford, County of Herefordshire, England), Eton College (Windsor, West Berkshire, England), unknown venue (Great Malvern, County of Worcestershire, England), unknown venue (Worcester, County of Worcestershire, England)
Orestie (1923) 1923 unknown venue (Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany), unknown venue (Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany)
The Curse of the House of Atreus (1924) 1924 Wadham College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England), Sydney Park (Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England), Corfe Castle (Wareham, County of Dorset, England), Max Gate, Thomas Hardy's house (Dorchester, County of Dorset, England), Bishop's Palace (Wells, County of Somerset, England), Chalice Well (Glastonbury, County of Somerset, England), Maumbery Rings (Dorchester, County of Dorset, England), unknown venue (Axminster, County of Devon, England), Digby Hall (Sherborne, County of Dorset, England), St Cuthbert's Girls' School (Bournemouth, County of Dorset, England), Horseshoe Park (Bournemouth, County of Dorset, England), Old Sarum (Salisbury, County of Wiltshire, England), Winchester College (Winchester, County of Hampshire, England)
Agamemnon (1924) 1924 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1924 - 1925) 1924 unknown venue (San Francisco, State of California, United States)
Oresteia [Agamemnon and Choephoroi] (1924) 1924 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oresteia [Agamemnon and Choephoroi] (1924) 1924 Koursal Theatre (Cairo, Muḩāfaz̧at al Qāhirah, Egypt)
Oresteia (1926 - 1927) 1926 Chekhov Academic Art Theatre (Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Orestes [= Oresteia] (1926) 1926 Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1926) 1926 University of Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Oresteia (1926) 1926 Theatro Akropolis (Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece)
Oresteia (1926) 1926 Festival Theatre, Newmarket Road, Theatre Royal (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Les Choéphores (1927) 1927 Chateau Vallon (France)
Les Choéphores (1927 - 1935) 1927 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteia (1929) 1929 Mĕstské Divadlo Na Hradbách (Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic)
Choephoroe (1930 - 1952) 1930 Université de Poitiers (Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France)
Oresteia (1930) 1930 Ancient Theatre of Orange (Orange, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Gravoffret (1930) 1930 unknown venue (Sweden)
Leben des Orest (1930) 1930 Stadttheater (Leipzig, Saxony, Germany)
Oresteia (1930) 1930 unknown venue (New York City, New York, United States)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) 1931 Guild Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
Oresteia (1931) 1931 Little Theatre (Sheffield, City and Borough of Sheffield, England)
Script Contributors Year Relationship
Libation-Bearers Minos Volonakis
Oresteia Robert Auletta Translation
Oresteia Robert Auletta
Les Choéphores Paul Mazon Translation
Oresteia G. Devecseri Translation
Orestie Johann Jakob Christian Donner Translation
L'Orestie Olivier Py Translation
Oresteia Al. Pop Translation
The Oresteia Ian Sinclair Translation
Oresteia I. Janosy Translation
Orestea-Atridi Michele di Martino Adaptation
Les Mouches Jean-Paul Sartre Distant relative
The Oresteia Lord Edward Longford, Christine Longford Translation
The Oresteia (Part 1 The Home Guard; Part 2 Daughters of Darkness) Ted Hughes Translation
Oresteia Ferdinand Stiebitz Translation
Oresteia Václav Renč Translation
Oresteia Sergey Solovióv Translation
L'Orestie André Obey Translation
Orest: Tragödie von Aeschylos Wilhelm Rossmann Adaptation
La Orestiada José María Pemán, Sánchez Castañer Castaner Adaptation
Oi Naru Shogo [High Noon] Masahiko Eguchi Adaptation
Orestie Johannes Tralow Adaptation
Libation-Bearers Rossman
Dzieje Orestesa Jan Kasprowicz Translation
Les Erinnyes Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) Adaptation
Echoes of Hellas: The Tale of Troy and the Story of Orestes. (1887) George Charles Winter Warr 1887 Adaptation
Oresteia: The Curse of the House of Atreus (1920) R. C. Trevelyan 1920 Translation
Orestien (1929) Emil Zilliacus 1929 Translation
The House of Atreus (1966) John Lewin 1966 Adaptation
From the Dead: The Choephori (1974) Rush Rehm 1974
The Oresteia (1981) Tony Harrison 1981 Translation
Oresteia (1991) Kirsti Simonsuuri 1991 Translation
Oresteia (1994) Aharon Shabtai 1994 Translation
Coefore (1996) Umberto Albini 1996 Translation
Ariel (2002) Marina Carr 2002 Adaptation
The Murders at Argos (2002) David Foley 2002 Adaptation
Oresteia (2006) Herman Altena 2006 Translation
Molora (2008) Yael Farber 2008 Adaptation
Oresteia (2015) Robert Icke 2015
The Oresteia (2015) Rory Mullarkey 2015 Adaption
This Restless House (2017) Zinnie Harris 2017 Adaption

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