In the City of Paradise (1998)

Original id:

7372

Start date:

1 April 1998

End date:

30 April 1998

Degree of relationship to ancient play:

Distant relative

Production notes:

This production re-worked material from Aeschylus' Oresteia, the Electra plays of Sophocles and Euripides and Euripides' Orestes, with several speeches adhering closely to those in the original plays. The production was created in workshop by the cast.

Media of production:

Stage-play

Languages:

English

Sotho, Southern

Companies:

University of Cape Town

Ancient works:

Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers), Eumenides, Elektra, Elektra, Orestes

Script	Author(s)
Agamemnon	Aeschylus
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)	Aeschylus
Eumenides	Aeschylus
Elektra	Euripides
Elektra	Sophocles AKA Sophokles
Orestes	Euripides

Person	Role	Notes
Mark Fleishman	Director
Jacqui Pickering	Actor	Clytaemnestra
Warona Seane	Actor	Cassandra
Niall Segell	Actor	Agamemnon

Venue	Festival	Dates	Notes
University of Cape Town (Cape Town, Province of the Western Cape, South Africa)			in the Hiddingh Hall on the Orange Street Campus

Source	Format	Location if held at the APGRD	Pagination
Theatre: Ancient and Modern	Conference proceedings	library	257-264, 268n41
In the City of Paradise: production information	Print-out	archive
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004	Book	library	419
In the City of Paradise - DVD recording of stage production	DVD	archive
Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds	Book	library	pp.102-119	Elke Steinmeyer:'Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise'
Article: Staging Transition: The Oresteia in post-Apartheid South Africa	Photocopy	archive

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