Medea (1978)

Original id:

582

Start date:

4 February 1978

End date:

28 February 1978

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

An all-male production which was revived several times until October 1999.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

Japanese

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Medea	Euripides
Medea	Mutsuo Takahashi

Person	Role	Notes
Mikijiro Hira	Actor	Medea
Yukio Ninagawa	Director

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Nissei Theatre (Tokyo, Tōkyō-to, Japan)		4 February, 1978 to 28 February, 1978

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Macbeth; Medea	Programme	archive	Centrefold
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy	Book	library	313
Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy	Print-out	archive
Euripides' Medea: A Tragedy	Programme	archive
Ninagawa's Works (in Japan)	Production chronology	archive	3
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000	Book	library	6, 191, 192, 211, 256
Ninagawa's Production of Euripides' Medea (2002)	Offprint	library
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium	Book	library	90, 386
Ninagawa's Oedipus Rex: Classical Theatre for a Postmodern Audience?	Thesis	library		Ninagawa's numerous productions of Medea (1978 to 1999) are referenced, briefly, throughout the thesis as a counterpoint to the analysis of his Oedipus Rex.
Masahiro Kitano's additions and corrections to the APGRD Database listings for Japan, February 2005	Personal notes	archive
What Ninagawa did next: notes on productions following the end of Medea in 1999	Talk handout	archive
A History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Japan	Offprint	archive

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