The House of Atreus (1964)

Production

APGRD id

4618

Start date

13th January 1964

Production Media

Choreographic work (dance, ballet, mime, dumbshow, performance art etc.)

Associated ancient works

Companies

APGRD Notes

A revised, second version of ID 4617.

URI

https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/4618

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Person	Credit	Notes
Grant Strate (1927-2015)	Choreographer
Jacqueline Ivings	Dancer	Clytemnestra
Harold Barling Town (1924-1990)	Costume Designer
Harry Stewart Somers (1925-1999)	Composer
Lois Smith	Dancer	Electra
Wallace Russell	Lighting Designer
Lawrence Vaughan Adams (1936-2003)	Dancer	Agamemnon
Yves Cousineau	Dancer	Aegisthus
Earl Kraul	Dancer	Orestes
Joysanne Sidimus	Dancer	Electra (in later performances)
Timothy Spain	Dancer	Young Orestes
Patricia Powers	Dancer	Young Electra (alternating with Rebecca Bryan)
Rebecca Bryan	Dancer	Young Electra (alternating with Patricia Powers)

Venue	Country	Dates	APGRD Notes
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) (New York City, New York, United States)	United States	01/02/1964	U.S. premiere of revised version.
Capitol Theatre (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)	Canada	13/01/1964	Premiere of revised version.
O’Keefe Center (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)	Canada	21/04/1964 – 02/05/1964
Place des Arts (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)	Canada	29/01/1965	Final performance of run; with Joysanne Sidimus and Jeremy Bainton taking over the principle roles.

Title	Year	Format	Content
House of Atreus 1 / Photograph by Ken Bell	2003	Print-out	catalogue record

Title	Contributors	Year	Format	Pagination
Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s. Vol.1	Jane Davidson Reid	1993	Book
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Inga-Stina Ewbank, Susanna Phillippo, Dmitry Trubotshkin, Margaret Reynolds, Yopie Prins, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Michael Ewans, Massimo Fusillo, Pantelis Michelakis, Helene Foley, Pat E. Easterling AKA Patricia, Rush Rehm, Fiona Macintosh, Anton Bierl, Pierre Judet de la Combe, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, J. Michael Walton	2005	Book

Title	Year	Format	Content
Toronto Daily Star: ‘Morality Officer all eyes at ballet’	1964	Newspaper article	newspaper article
Ottawa Citizen: 'Pressure distorts a sober piece of work’		Newspaper article	newspaper review
New York Times: ‘Canadian Troupe in Dance Program’	1964	Newspaper article	newspaper article
Ottawa Citizen, 'House of Atreus termed “sheer idiocy”'		Newspaper article	newspaper review
Grant Strate: A Memoir	2002	Book	autobiography
The Globe and Mail: The House of Atreus	1964	Newspaper	review