EURIPIDES
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Euripides
After The Trojan War |
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1995 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; comprises three plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | A powerful indictment on the effects of war by one of the greatest of all Greek tragedians. Gods and humans worked together to build the great city of Troy, then wrought its destruction; Troy has falen, thousands are dead, every male trojan slaughtered but what of those left alive? | |||||
Alcestis |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press | ISBN | 978-0195061666 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
![]() | At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and thematic concentration of the Alcestis. William Arrowsmith, eminent classical scholar, translator, and General Editor of this highly praised series, rejects the standard view of the Alcestis as a psychological study of the egotist Admetos and his naive but devoted wife. His translation, instead, presents the play as a drama of human existence--in keeping with the tradition of Greek tragedy--with recognizably human characters who also represent masked embodiments of human conditions. The Alcestis thus becomes a metaphysical tragicomedy in which Admetos, who has heretofore led a life without limitations, learns to "think mortal thoughts." He acquires the knowledge of limits--the acceptance of death as well as the duty to live--which, according to Euripides, makes people meaningfully human and capable of both courage and compassion. This new interpretation compellingly argues that, for Euripides, suffering humanizes, that exemption makes a man selfish and childish, and that only the courage to accept both life and death leads to the realization of one's humanity, and, in the case of Alcestis, to heroism. | |||||
Alcestis |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008 | ISBN | 9781590172537 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Alcestis |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Robert Wilson | |||||
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Alcestis |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Heiner Muller | |||||
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Alkestis |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Euripides Plays: Three, Methuen, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Ally Way, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 2002 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | A Version of Alcestis | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Later, directed by Robert Salerno, at 6th @ Penn, (2004) | |||||
| Synopsis: | A Walk on the Wild Side! Stroll into The Ally Way! Exuberant, over-the-top look at our present joys and fears! Should a wife sacrifice herself for her husband even if he is not worth it? Should a man serve a government whether it's just or not? Laugh your way to the answers. Robert Salerno's brilliant direction of Marianne McDonald's irreverent version of Euripides' Alcestis, The Ally Way, shows how men and women need each other in spite of (and sometimes because of) their differences. | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aris & Phillips (Nick Hern Books, London, 2001), 1995 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Marianne McDonald and Michael Walton | |||||
| Synopsis: | The play takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Andromache has become a concubine to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus, bearing him a child, Molossus. The captive Andromache is haunted by memories of her former life and by her love for Hector and their son Astyanax, both slain by the Greeks who are now her masters...read more | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated with Marianne MacDonald | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | A lively, modern English translation of Euripides' last and greatest play which depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysian religion in Greece. | |||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. from a literal translation by Ian Ruffell | |||||
| Synopsis: | In the wildest of all Greek tragedies, Dionysus returns home with his cult of female followers to exact revenge for his mother's death. Drawing the townswomen under his hypnotic spell, he unleashes the full force of female sexuality on the city. | |||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | Athens | 405 BC | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | 9781854594112 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus and extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael | |||||
![]() | At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people. | |||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Frederick Raphael | |||||
| Synopsis: | First performed in Athens in 405 BC this bloodthirsty story still has a timeless theatrical power. The half-god Dionysos returns to Thebes intent on punishing his family for rejecting him. Dionysos persuades his cousin Pentheus, King of Thebes, to disguise himself as a woman so he can witness the Theban women celebrating the wild Bacchanalian rites. Pentheus's mother mistakes Pentheus for a lion and tears him to pieces. But that only marks the beginning of Dionysos's revenge. | |||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | Athens | 405 BC | ||||
| Company: | Stanhope Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | 9781854594112 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus and extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael | |||||
![]() | At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people. | |||||
Bacchae |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Kenneth McLeish | |||||
| Synopsis: | First performed in Athens in 405 BC this bloodthirsty story still has a timeless theatrical power. The half-god Dionysos returns to Thebes intent on punishing his family for rejecting him. Dionysos persuades his cousin Pentheus, King of Thebes, to disguise himself as a woman so he can witness the Theban women celebrating the wild Bacchanalian rites. Pentheus's mother mistakes Pentheus for a lion and tears him to pieces. But that only marks the beginning of Dionysos's revenge. | |||||
Bacchae of Baghdad, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Present day geopolitics clash with ancient, mystical tragedy in this transposition of Euripides' play to the present-day green zone in Baghdad. In the original, the Theban leader Pentheus and the vengeance-seeking half-god Dionysus are cousins who each have some rightful claim on the city. Makes Pentheus the swaggering, tyrannical leader of US forces in Iraq.The argument is skewed irrevocably in the favour of Dionysusplayed as a Middle East-accented, dreadlocked hottie whose powers manifest in his ability to make the Bacchants whirl like dervishes to a groovy world music beat as flames shoot out of the urn containing his mother's ashes. Karen Fricker, The Guardian | |||||
Bacchae, the |
| 1st Produced: | Prospect Theatre Co for studio theatre tour | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysiac religion in Greece | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Green Thumb Theatre, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | musical play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Adapted by Des McAnuff, with Larry Davis, Evelyn Dati, David Kosub | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Green Thumb Theatre, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | musical play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Adapted by Des McAnuff, with Larry Davis, Evelyn Dati, David Kosub | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Green Thumb Theatre, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | musical play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Adapted by Des McAnuff, with Larry Davis, Evelyn Dati, David Kosub | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Green Thumb Theatre, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | musical play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Adapted by Des McAnuff, with Larry Davis, Evelyn Dati, David Kosub | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | 1963 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds WYP Courtyard | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>> , 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Version by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre | |||||
| Synopsis: | a fun production of The Bacchae with dire warnings about the dangers of binge drinking | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysiac religion in Greece | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | A Communion Rite | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysiac religion in Greece | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Euripides, Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysiac religion in Greece | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds, WYP Courtyard | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Off Beat Pantomime | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Version by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre | |||||
| Synopsis: | a fun production of The Bacchae with dire warnings about the dangers of binge drinking | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds, WYP Courtyard | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Off Beat Pantomime | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Version by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre | |||||
| Synopsis: | a fun production of The Bacchae with dire warnings about the dangers of binge drinking | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds, WYP Courtyard | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Off Beat Pantomime | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Version by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre | |||||
| Synopsis: | a fun production of The Bacchae with dire warnings about the dangers of binge drinking | |||||
Bacchai |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him of his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humour, the God drives Pentheus and all the city to their shocking fate.limelight after decades of anonymity. | |||||
Bakkhai |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 1991 | ISBN | 978-0195125986 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
![]() | Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the Theban king, Pentheus, forbids his people to worship him and tries to have him arrested. Enraged, Bacchus drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy. | |||||
Bakkhai |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the Theban king, Pentheus, forbids his people to worship him and tries to have him arrested. Enraged, Bacchus drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy. | |||||
Children of Heracles |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg. The story is set in Athens just shortly after the death of the famous hero Heracles (a.k.a. Hercules). His children (and therefore the grandchildren of Zeus himself) have taken shelter in the temple of Zeus while a messenger from the rival city of Argos seeks to bring them back for certain death at the hands of the king of Argos who believes the children will be his undoing if they are allowed to live. Critic's Choice, San Diego Union July/August 2003. "With UCSD professor Marianne McDonald's fluent, lively translation as its spine, and a fine ensemble of actors sparking her script to life&" Anne Marie Welsh, San Diego Union (July 21, 2003) | |||||
Children of Herakles, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 1981 | ISBN | B0027HG2BU | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. (Trans by Henry Taylor and Robert A. Brooks) | |||||
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Children of Herakles, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 1981 | ISBN | B0027HG2BU | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. (Trans by Henry Taylor and Robert A. Brooks) | |||||
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Children Of Hercules |
| 1st Produced: | The Scoop, London | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | The Steam Industry | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | plunges straight into the heart of the play that begins in the wake of Hercules' death | |||||
Cyclops |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 2001 | ISBN | 978-0195143034 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
![]() | Brimming with lusty comedy and horror, this new version of Euripides' only extant satyr play has been refreshed with all the salty humor, vigorous music, and dramatic shapeliness available in modern American English. Driven by storms onto the shores of the Cyclops' island, Odysseus and his men find that the Cyclops has already enslaved a company of Greeks. When some of Odysseus' crew are seized and eaten by the Cyclops, Odysseus resorts to spectacular stratagems to free his crew and escape the island. | |||||
Cyclops |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Euripides Plays: Two, Methuen, 1991 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Cyclops! |
| 1st Produced: | The Scoop, London | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Steam Industry | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | modern 50 min version of a Euripides Satyr play. | |||||
Disorderly Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | Stables Theatre, Manchester | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London, 1969 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides (The Bacchae) | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Edufa |
| 1st Produced: | Accra, Ghana | 1962 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Longman, London, 1967 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides (Alcestis) | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Electra and Other Plays" published by Penguin Books 1999 | ISBN | 9780140446685 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 1994 | ISBN | 978-0195085761 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Janet Lembke (Translator), Kenneth J. Reckford (Translator) | |||||
![]() | This vital translation of Euripides' Electra recreates the prize-winning excitement of the original play. Electra, obsessed by dreams of avenging her father's murder, impatiently awaits the return of her exiled brother Orestes. When he arrives, the play mounts toward its first climax, a tender recognition scene. From that moment on, Electra uses Orestes as her instrument of vengeance. They kill their mother's husband, then their mother herself--and only afterward see the evil inherent in these seemingly just acts. But in his usual fashion, Euripides has imbued myth with the reality of human experience, counterposing suspense and horror with comic realism and down-to-earth comments on life. | |||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated with Michael Walton | |||||
| Synopsis: | Euripides' ironic take on the Ancient Greek myth | |||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Theatre Babel | |||||
| 1st Published: | Capercaillie Books , | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Part of "The Greeks" | |||||
| Synopsis: | "As a dramatist, Tom McGrath's great strength is to pare things down to the fewest possible words, the sparsest settings, only the most elemental action. His extraordinary stroke with Electra is to seize on the brevities of Greek tragedy and whittle them down even further. The result: a lethal little piece, bristling with menacing meanings and consequences, representing a total minefield. We watch in horror as the characters blunder through it. His Electra is self-righteously correct, mad and disastrous. His Orestes, rather than god-enlightened, is a hesitant teenager blinded by a vision of new beginnings. All the characters have a dubious mixture of self-deluding, self-interested and high-minded motives. All are fatally credulous, believing messengers and messages even less reliably credentialed than CNN, Fox or the BBC. This piece zings with more compressed meaning than many ten times its length. It resonates powerfully for all of us watching similar stories unfolding in the Middle East, Congo, Rwanda, the USA and Northern Ireland." Bob Tait, theatre reviewer and literary critic | |||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press 1994 | ISBN | 978-0195085761 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Janet Lembke (Translator), Kenneth J. Reckford (Translator) | |||||
![]() | This vital translation of Euripides' Electra recreates the prize-winning excitement of the original play. Electra, obsessed by dreams of avenging her father's murder, impatiently awaits the return of her exiled brother Orestes. When he arrives, the play mounts toward its first climax, a tender recognition scene. From that moment on, Electra uses Orestes as her instrument of vengeance. They kill their mother's husband, then their mother herself--and only afterward see the evil inherent in these seemingly just acts. But in his usual fashion, Euripides has imbued myth with the reality of human experience, counterposing suspense and horror with comic realism and down-to-earth comments on life. | |||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Theatre, London (revival) | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Electra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated with Marianne MacDonald | |||||
| Synopsis: | Euripides' ironic take on the Ancient Greek myth | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008 | ISBN | 9781590172537 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | Foursight Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cambridge University Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber (April 7, 2005) | ISBN | 978-0571227914 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
![]() | Hecuba is a prisoner of the Greeks who have sacked her home town of Troy and killed most of her family. Now the Greek warlord Odysseus wants to sacrifice her daughter Polyxena to appease the ghost of Achilles. And then she discovers that her son Polydorus, whom she thought to be alive, is dead, too | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | Pearl Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press Inc, USA (1 April 1991) | ISBN | 978-0195042511 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J Reckford | |||||
![]() | This tragedy is a portrait of the defeated Queen of Troy, who transforms from grieving mother to cruel avenger to monster in the course of the play. The press release says, "Her fortitude in defeat is contrasted with the machinations of the victorious Greeks, and it is the Eastern monarchy, not the Western democracy, that draws our admiration and pity." | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Directed by Esther Emery. The Great War is over. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greek coalition forces are on their way home. Hecuba, once queen of Troy, now a prisoner of war, is being transported back to Athens with other war booty, the women of Troy. Having lost her home, her husband and most of her children, what does this proud and brave woman do when she is asked by her captors to give up her daughter's life having discovered on the same day that her only surviving son has been murdered? One of the most powerful and intense dramas ever written, a play which celebrates the courage and bravery of Hecuba and the women of Troy as they struggle to survive, a play which asks important questions about how the victors of war deal with the vanquished, a play about what happens to human beings when they lose all hope?. | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | Gate, London | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Focus Publishing 2005 | ISBN | 9781585101486 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | Pearl Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press Inc, USA (1 April 1991) | ISBN | 978-0195042511 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J Reckford | |||||
![]() | This tragedy is a portrait of the defeated Queen of Troy, who transforms from grieving mother to cruel avenger to monster in the course of the play. The press release says, "Her fortitude in defeat is contrasted with the machinations of the victorious Greeks, and it is the Eastern monarchy, not the Western democracy, that draws our admiration and pity." | |||||
Helen |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aris and Phillips, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Helen |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | light hearted treatment of the Helen of Troy Legend | |||||
Helen |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press | ISBN | 978-0195077100 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by James Michie and Colin Leach | |||||
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Helen |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Helen |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press | ISBN | 978-0195077100 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by James Michie and Colin Leach | |||||
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Heracles |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008 | ISBN | 9781590172537 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Herakles |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | OUP USA (18 Jan 2001) | ISBN | 978-0195131161 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Thomas Sleigh and Christian Wolff | |||||
![]() | n Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order . Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. The play depicts Herakles being driven mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery. In his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children, and he eventually exiles himself to Athens. The volume includes a new translation, an introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary. | |||||
Herakles |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | OUP USA (18 Jan 2001) | ISBN | 978-0195131161 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Thomas Sleigh and Christian Wolff | |||||
![]() | n Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order . Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. The play depicts Herakles being driven mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery. In his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children, and he eventually exiles himself to Athens. The volume includes a new translation, an introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary. | |||||
Hippolytos |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1980 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | A thorough, as opposed to literal, translation. The Greek theological imagery re-expressed in moral and existential terms that are native to us. | |||||
Hippolytus |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press Inc, USA (4 April 1974) | ISBN | 978-0192125712 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Hippolytus |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008 | ISBN | 9781590172537 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Hippolytus |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Temple Theatre in association with Onassis Programme | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 2 | |||||
| Notes: | Original playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | The goddess of love is offended by Hippolytus, who prefers hunting and horses to women; and her revenge will be terrible. | |||||
Imphigenia At Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press (31 Aug 1978) | ISBN | 978-0195022728 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr | |||||
![]() | a compelling look at the devastating consequence of `man's inhumanity to man'. A stern critique of Greek culture, Iphigeneia at Aulis condemns the Trojan War by depicting the power of political ambition and the ensuing repercussions of thoughtlessly falling to the will of constituency. The translation impressively re-creates the broad array of moral and emotional tones conveyed by Euripides, with a comprehensive introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary of mythical and geographical terms. | |||||
Imphigenia In Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ivan R Dee 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Ion |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press | ISBN | 978-0195094510 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Ion |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | concerns the protracted reunion of Creusa, the Queen of Athens, and her abandoned son, a humble sweeper-up at Delphi. | |||||
Ion |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | A compelling revival - Michael Billington, The Guardian. "Effective, stripped-back storytelling -puffs away at the classical cobwebs" - Brian Logan, Evening Standard. "The genius of his re-rendering is that it is witty, light and realistic - poetic but modern " Jonathan Myerson, The Independent | |||||
Iph... |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
| Company: | Lyric Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1999 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | chorus of young people | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Greeks and Trojans are on the brink of war. Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks, has a stark choice: whether to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia as the gods demand, or place the safety of his family before the interests of the state. Iphigeneia must choose whether to die willingly at her father's hand to ensure her nation's freedom. | |||||
Iphigenia |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides (Iphigenia in Aulis) | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Iphigenia Among The Taurians |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic melodrama about the reunion of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead | |||||
Iphigenia at Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | readings at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Compelling anti-war tragedy. Director Rosina Reynolds, who read Clytemnestra the beleaguered queen whose daughter, Iphigenia, was slaughtered for war, assembled a talented cast of San Diego actors. | |||||
Iphigenia at Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | TimeSpace Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press (31 Aug 1978) | ISBN | 978-0195022728 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr | |||||
![]() | a compelling look at the devastating consequence of `man's inhumanity to man'. A stern critique of Greek culture, Iphigeneia at Aulis condemns the Trojan War by depicting the power of political ambition and the ensuing repercussions of thoughtlessly falling to the will of constituency. The translation impressively re-creates the broad array of moral and emotional tones conveyed by Euripides, with a comprehensive introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary of mythical and geographical terms. | |||||
Iphigenia at Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Gardzienice | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Iphigenia at Aulis is a visual spectacle that examines how lives are affected by sacrifices made in the name of religion, politics and love. The production is performed in English, Polish and Ancient Greek, with scenes built on shadow and light, movement, gesture and music to tell Euripides's classic story of betrayal, deception, and sacrifice in a time of war - press release | |||||
Iphigenia At Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Publishing Ltd (12 Jul 1990) | ISBN | 978-0413642509 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
![]() | In a direct ans searching response to the Iraq invasion the production turns to the ancient greeks for amplification. Iphigenia was the daughter of the ancient Greek warrior Agamemnon, and Aulis is the place where she is brought to be sacrificed by her fathers. the idea is to appease the gods and win fair wins for a naval invasion of troy. | |||||
Iphigenia Cycle, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Iphigenia Cycle actually consists of two plays, both written by the great Greek tragedian Euripides near the end of his life. The first is Iphigenia at Aulis, which tells how Agamemnon, leader of the Greek army, comes to sacrifice his eldest daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis, in return for a promised victory over his enemies in Troy. Over the objections of his brother Menelaos, his wife Clytemnestra, and the young soldier Achilles, he manages to convince Iphigenia of the nobility of her sacrifice and she agrees to it, only to be rescued at the last minute by the goddess herself. The second play, Iphigenia in Tauris, picks up the story ten years later. Iphigenia has been taken by Artemis to the barbaric land of Tauris, where she serves as the priestess of her temple. The custom here is to kill any Greek who ventures on Taurian soil, and it is Iphigenia's duty to supervise these killings, which are sacrifices to the goddess. One day two Greek travelers show up, who Iphigenia discovers are in fact her younger brother Orestes and his friend Pylades. Orestes, who murdered Clytemnestra to avenge that lady's murder of Agamemnon, is being pursued by the Furies. To free him of this miserable torture, the god Apollo has commanded him to steal the statue of Artemis housed at this very temple. He and Iphigenia reunite and contrive to steal the statue and indeed Iphigenia herself from the temple at Tauris. At the end of the play, the goddess Athena affirms the victory of the Greeks over the Taurians, leaving us with the promise of Orestes's just return to rule over his people. nytheatre.com | |||||
Iphigenia in Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | Hayworth Theatre, CA | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Circus Theatricals | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | With the three woman chorus speaking solely in Iambic Pentameter, this modern-dress adaptation becomes a chilling account of how the juggernaut of religion, nationalism and political need can create a state-sanctioned suicide martyr. Given the Iraq war and the fierce debate over religious fundamentalism in the Middle East and at home, it's hard to find a more relevant piece of theater than this modern adaptation of Euripides' 2,500-year-old tragedy. | |||||
Iphigenia in Tauris |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Barons Court, London | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Mirtos Prods | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | 2b | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | At a time when immigration is a thorny political issue this is a modern adaptation of the classic | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Euripides, Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Greek Tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 2 c | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Washington, D.C. | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Robert Wilson | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue, NY | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Columbia Stages | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Regional at The C.A.S.T.L.E. Theatre | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Tragedy, Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Medea plots revenge against her treacherous husband in this new translation that cuts to the vulgar heart of Euripides' tragedy | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | The Scoop at More London | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. A specially commissioned translation of Euripides' celebrated revenge drama. Composer Joe Fredericks | |||||
| Synopsis: | As the sun sets there's a chance for older audiences to enjoy the intrigue, scandal and heart-stopping suspense of a celebrity marriage in crisis as the adult Jason and Medea's love is tested to its limits. When King Jason is lured away by a new princess, Medea plots the famous and terrible revenge that has shocked audiences for thousands of years. Is she right to act as she does? - British Theatre Guide | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1993 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | children | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc, 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 9-10 actors possible | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | a lean, mean, vibrant Medea for our times | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | Foursight Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cambridge University Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Theatre Babel | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2000 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Part of "The Greeks" | |||||
| Synopsis: | the kind of interpretation - brave, visionary, risky - that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light. | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | a succinct deconstruction retains the basic plot about a murderous mother with high camp vision | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue, NY | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Columbia Stages | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Translated by Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | University of Western Australia | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | MTC Theatre. Winnipeg, Canada | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 60 min | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Award Winner | |||||
| Synopsis: | An adaptation for two hands of Euripides chilling tragedy. As punishment for her crime of infanticide on her own children Medea, with only he Chorus for companionship. is forced to wander earth and time to perform her tragedy over and over. | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London >>> , 1994 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | 4c | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written by Frederick Raphael and Kenneth McLeish | |||||
| Synopsis: | The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children to revenge her husband's infidelity | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | Abbey Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London >>> , 1994 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | 4c | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written by Frederick Raphael and Kenneth McLeish | |||||
| Synopsis: | The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children to revenge her husband's infidelity | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | National Black Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 13 actors | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Of The Year Vol.15", Flek, London, 1957 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Noh Cycle | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 2c chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | a statement on modern women based on the classic story of Medea and Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Kent, Ohio | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Lilian Baylis, london | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | Monstrous Regiment | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | the company has modernised Euripedes tragedy into a feminist stock-taking exercise which dispenses with higher wisdoms to represent Jason as a patronising opportunist who, notwithstanding that he has ostensibly walked out on his wife for no good reason, would seem entitled to sue for divirce on grounds of unreasonable behaviour. Claire Armitstead, Financial Times | |||||
Medea |
| 1st Produced: | Washington, D.C. | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides; Written in collaboration with Gavin Bryars | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medea, Queen of Colchester |
| 1st Produced: | Sledgehammer Theatre | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Directed by Kirsten Brandt. A Cape Town transvestite expelled from her homeland for betraying her family for love is now the hottest thing on the Las Vegas strip. But, when her lover leaves her to marry the beautiful daughter of a Casino owner, Medea is driven to avenge his betrayal the only way a "woman" knows how. From Marianne McDonald, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Trojan Women, comes this tale of passion and sacrifice. "Marianne McDonald's script ingeniously modernizes all this. Medea is a black transvestite from South Africa's Colchester (the original Medea was involved from Colchis) who becomes involved with white drug dealer James, a widower with two sons." Don Braunagel, Los Angeles Times I (Aug. 29, 2003) | |||||
Medea: Sex War |
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan Opera, New York | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Dramatic Verse 1973-1985", Bloodaxe, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1985 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason | |||||
Medeia |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | London Ensemble Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | I'll take its own synopsis fiom the programme. 'Your husband runs off with a younger woman and leaves you with nothing? How do you get back at him? Kill the kids.' Really? Kill the kids? The Greek classics live on because we love the idea that the basic human emotions and dilemmas are eternal, unchanged over the millennia. But this Medeia is not really recognisable as the psychological portrait of a modem woman. Neither the elegant gowns nor the effortlessly contemporary didogue are going to bring her remotely close to the kind of psychotic maternal child-killer you might read about with horror in the papers. Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out London | |||||
Media |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Euripides Plays: One, Methuen, 2000 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Media/Media |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Gate Theatre and Headlong Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | In Medea/Medea, live performance interacts with pre-recorded image as the show probes the nature of translation, the concept of theatre and the place of myth in modern society. | |||||
Mister Heracles |
| 1st Produced: | West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Orestes |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Orestes |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Helen Edmundson's free version of the play, with its brooding meditation on matricide and guilt, revenge and justice. proves almost liberated to escapism's point. This Orestes is only "based" on the original, omits the chorus and several characters, while Helen of Troy's daughter, Hermione, is infantilised. Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard | |||||
Orestes |
| 1st Produced: | George Ignatieff Theatre, University of Toronto | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Phoenician Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Euripides, Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Rhesos |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Euripides Plays: Six, Methuen, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Rhesus |
| 1st Produced: | Basement Theatre at the Arts and Culture Centre, St John's, Newfoundland | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Trojan Women |
| 1st Produced: | San Diego Old Globe Theater | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Six Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus: Persians, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles Women of Trachis, Philoctetes; Euripides Trojan Women, Bacchae, Intro. Marianne McDonald and Michael Walton, Methuen, London, 2002 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation - Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Directed by Seret Scott . "Sorrowful, spent, angry, enlightened: The Trojan Women makes you feel these things, often at once. In 90 minute, the Old Globe staging of Euripides' tragedy, directed by Seret Scott and adapted by Marianne McDonald, delivers a shattered world, the one women inhabit when soldiers leave. Without flinging the play heedlessly into the present, UCSD professor McDonald's words have an unadorned familiarity. Her text brings home the horrors of war transparently; we can see through the language to the rapes of Kosovo, the bombings in the Gulf or Vietnam, and as Euripides so boldly anatomized, the Greek slaughter of the men of Melos in 416 B.C." Anne Marie Welsh, San Diego Union (September 11 2000) | |||||
Trojan Women 2.0 |
| 1st Produced: | Michael Weller Theatre | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
| Synopsis: | Trojan Women 2.0 sets the play by Euripides in modern times, in which we see Troy in ruins and a world reduced to such disarray and anguish that it will never recover again but will, instead spread death and disorder in all directions. Press Release | |||||
Trojan Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN | - | |
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||














