Original id:
2860
Start date:
5 June 1925
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Production notes:
This production was given in aid of the League of Nations Union.
Media of production:
Stage-play
Languages:
English
Medea (1925)
Companies:
Ancient works:
Information related to this production
| Script | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Medea | Euripides |
| Medea | Gilbert Murray (1866-1975) |
| Person | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Anderson | Actor | Jason |
| Ann Casson | Actor | Child |
| Mary Casson | Actor | Child |
| Lewis Casson | Actor | Creon / Messenger |
| Lindley Fraser | Actor | Soldier |
| Robert Graves | Actor | Soldier |
| Stockwell Hawkins | Actor | Atendant on the Children |
| Lilian Moubrey | Actor | Nurse of Medea |
| Cyril Nash | Actor | Aegeus |
| Sybil Thorndike | Actor | Medea |
| G. Emlyn Williams | Actor | Old Man |
| Bruce Winston | Costumes |
| Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Church (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England) | 4 June, 1925 | at 2pm in the Peckwater Quad |
| Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medea and British Legislation Before the First World War | Offprint | archive | 26; fig. 7 (p. 27) | |
| Medea - Original Programme | Programme | archive | ||
| Medea in Performance, 1500-2000 | Book | library | xi, 243; image at 20 | |
| Medea | Flyer | |||
| Medea | Programme | |||
| Sybil Thorndike: A Life in the Theatre | Book | 156 | ||
| International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) | Journal | library | 219 | 2472 |
| Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s | Thesis | library | 38 | |
| Photograph of Thorndike as Medea outside Christ Church Library | B&W photograph | archive | ||
| Greek Artists and Ancient Greek Drama: Stage Sets and Costumes - Exhibition Catalogue | Book | library | 103 | |
| Photograph of Sybil Thorndike as Medea | Print-out | archive |
How to cite this production
Medea (1925), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/2860 <22 November 2024>