Original id:
4186
Start date:
12 March 1957
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Media of production:
Stage-play
Languages:
English
Lysistrata (1957)
Companies:
Ancient works:
Information related to this production
| Script | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| Lysistrata | Dudley Fitts |
| Person | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| David Buxton | Actor | Athenian Officer |
| Martine Corbin | Actor | Illina |
| Constance Cummings | Actor | Lysistrata |
| Margo Cunningham | Actor | Kratilla |
| Zulema Dene | Actor | Ismenia |
| Nicholas Georgiadis | Set & Costume Designer | |
| Patricia Greene | Actor | Rhodippe |
| Janis Hardiman | Actor | Kalyke |
| Ian Hendry | Actor | Strymodoros / First Spartan Officer |
| Stephen John | Actor | Artimelis / Second Spartan Officer |
| Pat Keen | Actor | Adronike |
| Peter Kerr | Actor | Manes |
| Delena Kidd | Actor | Kalonike |
| Judith Mackenzie | Actor | Ende |
| Neil McCarthy | Actor | Maronios / Spartan Herald |
| Rosalind Moylan | Actor | Nikodike |
| Peter Prowse | Actor | The Athenian General |
| Gary Raymond | Actor | Philourgos / Kinesias |
| Michael Robinson | Composer | Lampito's song |
| Michael Robinson | Music | arranged Greek folk songs selected by the director |
| Malcolm Rogers | Actor | Drakes / Old Man |
| Prunella Scales | Actor | Myrrhine |
| Michael Scott | Actor | Antisthenis / Second Old Man |
| George Selway | Actor | The Magistrate / The Spartan General |
| June Speight | Actor | Stratyllis |
| Muriel Spottiswoode | Actor | Lampito |
| Minos Volonakis | Director | |
| Tony Wright | Music | arranged Greek folk songs selected by the director |
| Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England) | 12 March, 1957 | probably the world première of this translation | |
| Theatre Royal (Brighton, County of East Sussex, England) | 1 April, 1957 | for one week |
| Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programme: Lysistrata by Aristophanes | Programme | archive | ||
| Programme: Theatre Royal, Brighton: Lysistrata | Programme | archive | ||
| Greek Artists and Ancient Greek Drama: Stage Sets and Costumes - Exhibition Catalogue | Book | library | 126 | |
| Programme Lysistrata | Programme | archive |
How to cite this production
Lysistrata (1957), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/4186 <22 November 2024>