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Production

Agamemnon (1953)

APGRD id
850
Start date
17th February 1953
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Associated ancient works
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Companies
University of Cambridge
APGRD Notes
The first Cambridge Greek play with a female actor since Janet Case's performance in the 1885 Eumenides (see ID 826).
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/850
Related Content
Person Credit Notes
Patrick A. S. Hadley Composer
John Knowler Actor
George W. H. Rylands Director
Bryan Reardon Actor Agamemnon
Jennifer Field Actor Cassandra
David Lowther Actor Watchman
Frances Hedley Actor Clytemnestra
W. B. Cook Actor
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
Arts Theatre (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England) England – Cambridge Greek Play
Title Year Format Content
A Hundred Years of the Cambridge Greek Play Souvenir programme
Agamemnon - audiotape recording of extracts Audiotape recording
Antigone of Sophocles Programme
Arts Theatre, Cambridge: the Agamemnon of Aeschylus Photocopy newspaper review
Broadsheet. No.8 Magazine review
Electra Programme
School plays in Greek Print-out newspaper article
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Programme
The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play: 1882-1912 Photocopy chapter
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
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 Book
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus D. W. Lucas, Sir John T. Sheppard AKA J. Sheppard Book
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production J. Michael Walton Book
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 Christopher Stray Book