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Production

Herakles (1965)

APGRD id
868
Start date
27th October 1965
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
English
Associated ancient works
Herakles (Euripides)
Scripts:
Herakles (Archibald Macleish)
Companies
APGRD Notes
A play with a contemporary setting in which the Herakles myth features centrally: Act II is a fantasy in which elements of Euripides' Herakles are played out. The scheduled Broadway opening was cancelled.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/868
Related Content
Person Credit Notes
Alan Schneider Director
Rosemary Harris Actor Megara
Sydney Walker Actor Herakles
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) United States – in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Title Year Format Content
Herakles B&W photograph
Herakles, A Play in Verse by Archibald Macleish Photocopy playtext
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Greek Tragedy on the American Stage: Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994 Karelisa V. Hartigan Book
The Classics in the American Theater of the 1960s and Early 1970s Marianthe Colakis Book
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium Katharine Worth, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Kathleen Riley, Pantelis Michelakis, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Helene Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, Peter G. McC. Brown, David Wiles, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) Book