Original id:
6507
Start date:
10 May 1963
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Production notes:
Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme at 8.40pm, and repeated on 26 May 1963.
Media of production:
Radio
Languages:
English
Electra (1963)
Companies:
Ancient works:
Information related to this production
| Script | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Elektra | Sophocles AKA Sophokles |
| Electra | Constantine A. Trypanis |
| Person | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Shirley Cooklin | Actor | Chorus |
| Val Gielgud (1900-1981) | Producer | |
| Michael Gough | Actor | Orestes |
| Sheila Grant | Actor | Chorus |
| Malcolm Hayes | Actor | Aegisthus |
| Carleton Hobbs | Actor | Tutor |
| John Hotchkis | Composer | |
| Colette King | Chorus Direction | |
| Elizabeth Morgan | Actor | Chrysothemis |
| Diana Olsson | Actor | Chorus |
| Meg Wynn Owen | Actor | Chorus |
| Delia Paton | Actor | Chorus |
| Eva Stuart | Actor | Chorus |
| Margaret Whiting | Actor | Electra |
| Mary Wimbush | Actor | Clytaemnestra |
| Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| unknown venue (England) |
| Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electra | Print-out | archive | ||
| Electra | Print-out | archive | ||
| Letter from Val Gielgud to Colette King | Correspondence | archive | ||
| Letter from Val Gielgud to Colette King | Correspondence | archive | ||
| The Electra of Sophocles | Photocopy | archive | ||
| International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) | Journal | library | 232 | 2472 |
| Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s | Thesis | library | 134 | |
| Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players | Book | library | 5 |
How to cite this production
Electra (1963), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/6507 <22 November 2024>