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Production

The Frogs (1941)

APGRD id
6375
Start date
13th November 1941
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
English
Associated ancient works
Frogs (Aristophanes)
Companies
Yale University (Dramatic Association)
APGRD Notes
The translation was made by undergraduates. The actors in the Chorus are not listed here.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/6375
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Person Credit Notes
Burt Shevelove Director
Franklin B. Young Composer
Juana de Laban Choreographer
Elemér Nagy Designer
Robert Lowen Costume Designer
Sally-Ross Dinsmore Costumes
John D. Fletcher Actor Dionysus
Mortimer Marshall Actor Xanthias
Robert E. White Actor Hercules
Walter F. Goodman Actor Dead Man
Carter Palmer Actor Charon
C. Robert O'Connor Actor Aeacus
John S. Brittain Actor Hand Maiden to Persephone
Arthur Pastore Actor Lady in Hades
Claude Douthit Actor Maid Servant of Lady in Hades
John G. Gardner Actor Bernard Shaw
Crosby S. Noyes Actor William Shakespeare
Thomas B. DeMott Actor Pluto
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) United States – in the pool of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Title Year Format Content
Aristophanes makes a splash Photocopy review
Image Print-out image
The Frogs of Aristophanes Photocopy programme
When The Frogs made a splash at Yale Print-out article
Yale's pool becomes a theater for production of Aristophanes' The Frogs Photocopy review
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs Vasiliki Giannopoulou, Charalampos Orfanos, Matthew Steggle, Rosie Wyles, Phiroze Vasunia, Angeliki Varakis, Francesca Schironi, Martina Treu, Sean O'Brien, Bernd Seidensticker, Ewen Bowie, Gonda A. H. Van Steen, Malika Bastin-Hammou AKA Hammou, Betine van Zyl Smit, Amanda Wrigley, Michael Silk, Mary-Kay Gamel, Edith Hall Book