Alcestis on the British stage

1.1 Reference code: 
6665
1.3 Date: 
2001
1.5 Media: 
Photocopy
1.5 Extent and media: 
3.1 Content: 
journal article
3.1 Scope and Content: 
4.1 Conditions of Access: 
refer to archivist
4.2 Conditions of Reproduction: 
refer to archivist
5.1 Existence of Originals: 
5.2 Copies in Archive: 
6.1 Archivist's note: 
Cahiers du GITA, no.14, pp.281-308
7.2 Rules and Conventions: 
Associated ancient plays: 
Alkestis
Medea
Medea
Iphigenia among the Taurians
Agamemnon
Agamemnon
Antigone
Helen
Oedipus the King
Ichneutai (The Trackers) [fragments]
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)
Eumenides

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Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide (1674) 1674 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Phaeton; or The Fatal Divorce (1698) 1698 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Admeto, re di Tessaglia (1727 - 1728) 1727 King's Theatre in the Haymarket (London, Greater London, England)
Agamemnon (1738) 1738 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Edward and Eleonora (1775) 1775 Theatre Royal (London, Greater London, England)
Edward and Eleonora (1796) 1796 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1809) 1809 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Alcestis (1824) 1824 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Antigone (1844) 1844 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Antigone (1845) 1845 Covent Garden (London, Greater London, England)
Alceste (1847) 1847 Odéon (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Alcestis: The Original Strong-Minded Woman. A Classical Burlesque in One Act (1850) 1850 Strand Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis: The Original Strong-Minded Woman. A Classical Burlesque in One Act (1850) 1850 Olympic Theatre (New York City, New York, United States), Brougham Theatre (New York City, New York, United States)
Alcestis: The Original Strong-Minded Woman. A Classical Burlesque in One Act (1853) 1853 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis: A Lyric Play (1855) 1855 St James's Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
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Agamemnon (1880) 1880 Balliol College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England), St George's Hall (London, Greater London, England), Eton College (Windsor, West Berkshire, England), Winchester College (Winchester, County of Hampshire, England), Harrow School (London Borough of Harrow, Greater London, England), unknown venue (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Alcestis (1882) 1882 Bradfield College (Bradfield, West Berkshire, England)
Helena in Troas (1886) 1886 Hengler's Circus (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1886) 1886 Queen's College, Harley Street (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1887) 1887 New Theatre, George Street, New Theatre, Victoria Theatre (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Alcestis (1895) 1895 Bradfield College (Bradfield, West Berkshire, England)
Alcestis (1903) 1903 Bournemouth Girls High School (Bournemouth, County of Dorset, England)
Alcestis (1904) 1904 Bradfield College (Bradfield, West Berkshire, England)
Alcestis: A Dramatic Poem (1911 - 1914) 1911 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1911) 1911 University of London, Imperial Institute (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1914) 1914 Bradfield College (Bradfield, West Berkshire, England)
Alcestis (1914) 1914 Ethical Church, Bayswater (London, Greater London, England)
Alkestis (1922) 1922 unknown venue (Glastonbury, County of Somerset, England)
Alcestis (1923) 1923 James Allen's Girls' School (London, Greater London, England)
Alkestis (1924) 1924 Covent Garden (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1931) 1931 Festival Theatre, Newmarket Road, Theatre Royal (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
The Cocktail Party (1947) 1947 unknown venue (Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Oedipus Rex (1954) 1954 Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Stratford, Ontario, Canada)
The Alcestiad; or, A Life in the Sun (1955) 1955 Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland)
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (1988) 1988 Ancient Theatre of Delphi (Delphi, Central Greece, Greece)
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (1990 - 1991) 1990 National Theatre (NT), Royal National Theatre (RNT) (London, Greater London, England), Salts Mill (Saltaire, England), Ancient Site of Carnuntum (Petronell-Carnuntum, Lower Austria, Austria), unknown venue (Denmark)
The Oresteia (Part 1 The Home Guard; Part 2 Daughters of Darkness) (1999 - 2000) 1999 National Theatre (NT), Royal National Theatre (RNT) (London, Greater London, England), du Maurier Theatre Centre (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Alcestis (2000) 2000 Viaduct Theatre (Halifax, Borough of Calderdale, England), Bristol Old Vic (Bristol, North Somerset, England), unknown venue, Teatro La Fenice (Penrith, County of Cumbria, England), unknown venue (Ollerton, County of Nottinghamshire, England), unknown venue (Salford, England), British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England), unknown venue (Stratford-upon-Avon, County of Warwickshire, England)
Alceste (2000) 2000 Royal Opera House (London, Greater London, England)

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