The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1950)

Original id:

4637

Start date:

26 November 1950

End date:

22 December 1950

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

For this production Jeffers himself adapted his work for the stage, cutting c.225 lines of the text.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Agamemnon	Aeschylus
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)	Aeschylus
The Tower Beyond Tragedy	Robinson Jeffers

Person	Role	Notes
Judith Anderson	Actor	Clytemnestra
Luther Greene		Director?
Robinson Jeffers	Adaptor	adapted his own text for the stage
Robert Ross		Director?
Thelma Schnee	Actor	Cassandra
Frederic Tozere	Actor	Agamemnon

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
ANTA (American National Theatre & Academy) Playhouse (New York City, New York, United States)		26 November, 1950 to 22 December, 1950

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Letter from Philip Hooker to Amanda Wrigley	Correspondence	archive
Theatre Arts. November 1952	Magazine	library	67
Robinson Jeffers: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol in his Narrative Poems	Photocopy	archive
The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Work of Robinson Jeffers	Photocopy	archive	223ff.
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	380

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