Original id:
10482
Start date:
11 October 2008
End date:
19 October 2008
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Production notes:
An opera in one act.
Media of production:
Opera, musical and related genres
Languages:
English
Script | Author(s) |
---|---|
Antigone | Sophocles AKA Sophokles |
The Burial at Thebes | Seamus Heaney |
Person | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|
Idit Arad | Actor | Antigone |
Magdalen Ashman | Actor | Minister of Culture |
Andrea Baker | Actor | Ismene |
Malwina Chabocka | Assistant Designer | |
Brian Green | Actor | Creon |
Seamus Heaney | Librettist | |
Franz Hepburn | Actor | Minister of War |
John Joyce | Actor | Guard |
Daniel Keating-Roberts | Actor | Minister of Information |
Dominique Le Gendre | Composer | |
Peter Manning | Conductor | |
Peter Manning | Musical Director | |
Gregoire A. Meyer | Actor | Spirit of the City |
Andy Morton | Actor | Haemon |
Martin Nelson | Actor | Tiresias |
Adam Tunnicliffe | Actor | Minister of the Admiralty |
John Van der Put | Actor | Messenger |
Derek Walcott | Director | |
Derek Walcott | Designer | |
Marion Willman | Actor | Eurydice |
Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England) | 18 October, 2008 | ||
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (London, Greater London, England) | 10 October, 2008 to 11 October, 2008 | world première | |
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool, City and Borough of Liverpool, England) | 16 October, 2008 |
Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
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The Burial at Thebes | Flyer | archive | ||
The Burial at Thebes | Poster | archive | ||
Tragic waste | Newspaper cutting | archive | ||
The Burial at Thebes | Programme | archive | ||
Observer : Review | Newspaper cutting | archive | reverse | |
Greek Caribbean | Newspaper cutting | archive | ||
Ancient and modern | Newspaper cutting | archive | ||
Burial at Thebes - Antigone | Magazine | archive | ||
Burial at Thebes - Derek Walcott's prompt and design book | Prompt book | archive | ||
Burial at Thebes - original page cut from Derek Walcott's prompt book | Image | archive | ||
Burial at Thebes - Copies of Derek Walcott's prompt book | archive | |||
Heaney's first opera | Print-out | archive | ||
Recording - interview with Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott on Radio 4 | CD | archive | ||
The Burial at Thebes programme | Programme | archive |
The Burial at Thebes (2008), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/10482 <13 January 2025>