Original id:
5260
Start date:
1 January 1934
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Media of production:
Stage-play
Languages:
English
Script | Author(s) |
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Aias (Ajax) | Sophocles AKA Sophokles |
Ajax | Lewis Campbell |
Person | Role | Notes |
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Stuart Evelyn Abbott | Actor | Menelaus |
Thomas Fellowes Barker | Actor | Attendant |
Thomas Fellowes Barker | Manager | |
Francis Walter Ibbetson Barnes | Actor | Chorus Member |
Francis Walter Ibbetson Barnes | Composer | |
Oliver Sydney Bell | Actor | Chorus Member |
James Alexander Brown | Actor | Odysseus |
Peter John Ambrose Calvocoressi | Actor | Chorus Member |
Fred Guthrie Carpenter | Actor | Chorus Member |
Bill Davies | Actor | Tecmessa, but strangely not in cast list: was there even a Tecmessa? |
Robert Kingston Davies | Translator | some 120 lines of Campbell's translation were re-translated by Davies, who also cut 100 lines from the choral odes |
Robert Kingston Davies | Director | came back as a graduate to direct and act in this play |
Robert Kingston Davies | Actor | Ajax / Agamemnon, the latter a shared role |
Paul Henry Gore-Booth | Actor | Attendant |
Richard Purdon Heppel | in charge of pre-rehearsal readings | |
Sir Archibald Philip Hope | Actor | Attendant |
John Cecil Hope | Actor | Chorus Member |
Edmund Rawle Valpy Knox | Actor | Chorus Member |
John Roger Inglesant Lee | Actor | Messenger |
Henry Christopher Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt | Actor | Messenger |
P. A. MacRory | Actor | Agamemnon, a shared role |
R. J. Ross | Actor | Chorus Member |
John Usborne | Actor | Chorus Member |
Lawrence H. Waddy | Actor | Teucer / Athena |
Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
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Whitgift School (Croydon Grants, Greater London, England) | the last performance | ||
Corfe Castle (Wareham, County of Dorset, England) | |||
Bishop's Palace (Wells, County of Somerset, England) | |||
Lancing College (Lancing, County of West Sussex, England) | on the Headmaster's lawn | ||
Dinton House (Salisbury, County of Wiltshire, England) | Bertram Philipps paying fee for a charity performance at a fun fair | ||
unknown venue (Burford, County of Oxfordshire, England) | severe rain prevented a performance in Kitts' Quarry; a local school was instead used | ||
Kingswood School (Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England) | |||
Old Castle (Sherborne, County of Dorset, England) | |||
unknown venue (Gloucester, County of Gloucestershire, England) | |||
Blundell's School (Tiverton, County of Devon, England) | in the garden | ||
unknown venue (Ardingly, County of West Sussex, England) | in an open-air theatre |
Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
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Ajax - DVD recording of stage production | DVD | archive | ||
Greek Artists and Ancient Greek Drama: Stage Sets and Costumes - Exhibition Catalogue | Book | library | 159 |
Ajax (1934), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/5260 <26 February 2025>