Playing by the Censors' Rules? Classical Drama Revived under the Greek Junta (1967-1974)

1.1 Reference code: 
7158
1.3 Date: 
2001
1.5 Media: 
Offprint
1.5 Extent and media: 
3.1 Content: 
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: 
The Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, vol.27, nos 1-2, pp.133-194
7.2 Rules and Conventions: 
Associated ancient plays: 
Birds
Agamemnon
Iphigenia at Aulis
Elektra
Lysistrata
Persai (Persians)
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)
Eumenides
Elektra
Orestes
Antigone
Prometheus Bound
Oedipus the King
Frogs
Ekklesiazousai (Assembly Women)
Knights
Trojan Women

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Ornithes (1959) 1959 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Antigone sous l'Occupation (1960) 1960 unknown venue (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Elektra (1962) 1962 unknown venue (Greece)
Otan oi Atreides [When the Atreids; a.k.a. The Successors] (1964) 1964 Theatro Marika Kotopouli (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Persai (1965) 1965 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece), Aldwych Theatre (London, Greater London, England), Théâtre des Nations (Paris, Île-de-France, France), Theatro Parkou, Theatre of the Park (Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece)
Antigone (1965) 1965 Theatro Lykavittou, Lycabettus Theatre (Athens, Attica, Greece)
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Orestis (1966) 1966 Theatro Neas Ionias (Néa Ionía, Greece)
Ritter (1967) 1967 unknown venue (Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany), Freie Volksbühne, 1963-1992 (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany), unknown venue (Kassel, Hesse, Germany), unknown venue (Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
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Oidipous Tyrannos (1969) 1969 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece), Aldwych Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
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Lysistrati (1972) 1972 unknown venue (Greece)
Yinekokratia [Women in Power] (1972) 1972 unknown venue (Greece)
Oresteia (1972 - 1974) 1972 Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece), Aldwych Theatre (London, Greater London, England), Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece), unknown venue (Poland), unknown venue (Bulgaria), unknown venue (Hungary), unknown venue (Japan)
Elektra (1972) 1972 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Ornithes (1973 - 1974) 1973 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece), Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece)
Oresteia (1973) 1973 Ancient Odeion of Herodes Atticus (Athens, Attica, Greece)
Oidipous Tyrannos (1973 - 1974) 1973 Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece)
O Thiassos (The Travelling Players) (1974) 1974 unknown venue (Greece)
Prometheas Desmotis (1974) 1974 Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece)
Ornithes (1975) 1975 Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (Peloponnese, Greece), unknown venue (Athens, Attica, Greece), unknown venue (Vienna, Vienna, Austria), unknown venue (Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia)

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Playing by the Censors' Rules? Classical Drama Revived under the Greek Junta (1967-1974), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ <22 November 2024>