The Birds (1928)

Original id:

344

Start date:

4 June 1928

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Adaptation

Production notes:

Cornwell states that the play was performed as a "modern musical comedy" (p.158). It was revived in 1933 (see ID 290).

Media of production:

Opera, musical and related genres

Languages:

English

Companies:

Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script	Author(s)
Birds	Aristophanes
Les Oiseaux	Bernard Zimmer

Person	Role	Notes
Georges Auric	Composer
Ninette de Valois	Choreographer
Terence Gray	Director
Bernhardt [Boris] Ord	Conductor
Percy Pinkerton	Translator	translated Zimmer's adaptation into English

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
Festival Theatre, Newmarket Road, Theatre Royal (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
The Other Theatre	Book	library	58
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production	Book	library	342
Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece	Book	library	xiv
Only by Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray	Book	library	157-158, 259, 399

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