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Production

The Oresteian Trilogy (1921)

APGRD id
836
Start date
2nd March 1921
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Associated ancient works
Companies
University of Cambridge
APGRD Notes
A film version of this production, made by the Gaumont Picture Corporation, was screened in cinemas in Cambridge in June and August 1921 and in London in February 1922 (see production id 2777).
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/836
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Person Credit Notes
Dennis D. Arundell Actor Chorus Leader
W. L. Runciman Actor Agamemnon
R. C. N. Barton Actor Clytaemnestra
W. Le B. Egerton Actor Cassandra
J. Burnaby Director
Sir John T. Sheppard AKA J. Sheppard Director
Alec Penrose Designer
George W. H. Rylands Actor Electra
Donald H. Beves Actor Orestes
Charles Wood Conductor
C. Armstrong Gibbs Composer
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
New Theatre, New Theatre Royal (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) England – Cambridge Greek Play
Title Year Format Content
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play Souvenir programme
Aeschylus for school children Print-out review
Aeschylus Trilogy at Cambridge - Review Print-out newspaper review
Antigone of Sophocles Programme
Electra Programme
Letter from Patricia Acres to Amanda Wrigley Correspondence
Oresteia of Aeschylus Synopsis
Photographs of Cambridge Greek Play by Walter Benington Print-out photographs
Research notes of Rob Crow Print-out personal notes
The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play: 1882-1912 Photocopy chapter
The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus Programme
Things That Have Interested Me Photocopy book
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production J. Michael Walton Book
The Balliol Players 1923-1932 Photocopy
Only by Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray Paul Cornwell Book
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