SOPHOCLES&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(496 BC - 406 BC)

Ajax

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Music:	-			doollee no	#123220
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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JAMES KERR

Ajax

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oberon, London,			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#19127
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	5 Characters
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	describes the madness and death of one of the great Greek heroes of the Trojan wars, having fallen foul of the Gods
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ROSS MATSUDA

AjaxAntigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
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Music:	-			doollee no	#123221
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	The stories of Antigone and Ajax told concurrently
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TIM SPEICHER

AjaxAntigone

1st Produced:	St Peter's Episcopal Church, Chicago			11 Mar 2010
Company:	State Theatre Chicago
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#112635
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	The stories of Antigone and Ajax told concurrently
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PETER D ARNOTT

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Contained in: "Anthology of Living Theatre" published by McGraw-Hill,			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#83934
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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LEO AYLEN

Antigone

1st Produced:	Greenwich Theatre, London			1971
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#46424
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		3	Female	3
Parts other:	doubling
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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Antigone

1st Produced:	University of Utah, Greek Theater Festival			16 Sep 2001
Company:	University of Utah, Greek Theater Festival
1st Published:	in The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst (2004)			ISBN/ASIN:	1-55849-454-5
Music:	-			doollee no	#102961
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Genre:	Drama Translation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	3
Parts other:	Male chorus and leader
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. 10 performances directed by Barbara Smith
	Forbidden by her uncle, the tyrant Kreon, to bury her brother Polyneikes because he betrayed and attacked his own city, Antigone defies the edict, finds her brother's corpse, buries it, and carries out the required funeral rites. Guards on watch catch her in the act and bring her to Kreon, who immediately sentences Antigone to be incarcerated in a sealed underground chamber. Haimon, Antigone's betrothed, who happens to be Kreon's son, confronts his father, defends Antigone, but fails to persuade his father to spare her. In a burst of anger Haimon denounces his father and runs off to rescue Antigone. The direct confrontation between political and personal loyalties, which the characters eloquently debate, results not only in the deaths of Antigone, Haimon, and Kreon's wife, but in the moral and political destruction of Kreon. The play is particularly valued for providing one of dramatic literature's most heroic female roles, for the bravura poetry of its choral odes, and for the momentum of its intense, rapid-fire dialogue. Bagg's translation hews closely to the Greek so that Sophocles' own dramatization of a far-from-straightforward tragic clash of motives and principles may be experienced and Antigone's often over-ridden complexities preserved.
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GREG BANKS

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
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Music:	-			doollee no	#84906
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	5
Parts other:	extras
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Antigone defies her uncle, Creon and buries the body of her "traitor" brother
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RICHARD EMIL BRAUN

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oxford University Press 1990			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0195061673
Music:	-			doollee no	#97454
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
	Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
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JOCELYN (1) CLARKE

Antigone

1st Produced:	Dance Theatre Workshop, NY			28 Oct 2009
Company:	SITI Company
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#105309
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	cast of 7
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	The latest addition to SITI Company's repertoire, Antigone is a provoking tale of family and loyalty, patriotism and war, and the powers of the state. 'This powerful theatrical and emotionally charged experience is shockingly relevant to our present cultural and historic moment', says Artistic Director Anne Bogart. Adapted by Dublin-based Jocelyn ClarkeSITI's long-time collaboratorthe play tells the story of Antigone, the cursed daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who defies the King of Thebes for the right to bury her own brother. One of humankind's most enduring and influential stories, it explores conflicts between individual and state and the choices one has to make to either follow one's own beliefs or obey the law. Antigone was first presented as a work-in-progress at The J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa (CA) in May 2009, as part of their Theater Lab series. - press release
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SYLVIA DENNING

Antigone

1st Produced:	Wimbledon Studio, London			1999
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#9363
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Genre:	Sung play
Parts:	Male		5	Female	3
Parts other:	1b. Chorus male and female min. 6, no max
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Written with Nick Reeve. There is no dancing so 'Musical' is misleading
Synopsis:	The show follows closely Sophocles' play, but adds a number of new scenes to expand the story, and bring into focus the other characters surrounding the main protagonists: Antigone and her uncle King Creon. Antigone is a tale of family struggles set against the background of a repressive government. The story relates how Antigone, Oedipus' daughter, opposes the might of state and family. She knows that her crime will be discovered and that the penalty will be death, but, for her, principles are more important than personal safety and happiness.
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DECLAN DONNELLAN

Antigone

1st Produced:	Old Vic Theatre, London			1999
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#9826
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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GWYNNE EDWARDS

Antigone

1st Produced:	Riverside, London >>>			1998
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#10744
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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RICHARD ENGLING

Antigone

1st Produced:	Union Gallery of Union Station, Chicago			2004
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#86537
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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ROBERT FAGLES

Antigone

1st Produced:	Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL >>>			27 Apr 2010
Company:	Theatre Lab Company
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#114089
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Genre:	75 min Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	A city devastated by war. A family, the House of Oedipus, doomed by incest, guilt, grief and greed. Two brothers slay each other: one loyal subject, the other enemy and traitor, one to be given a heros burial, the other to be left unburied and exposed to the vultures. Creon, the new king and his young niece, Antigone, both wilful and passionate, are determined to be faithful to their individual causes - duty to the State for one, duty to love and morality for the other. In this visual and physical performance of Sophocles Antigone an eternal conflict transcends all boundaries in a tragedy that still resonates in contemporary culture and politics.
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EAMON FLACK

Antigone

1st Produced:	Subiaco Theatre Centre, Perth			25 Feb 2009
Company:	ThinIce for Perth International Arts Festival
1st Published:	Currency Press, Australia (2010) >>>			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0-86819-880-4
Music:	-			doollee no	#116380
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		4	Female	4
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
	Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brothers body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals. Defying Creons edict Antigone buries her brother and in so doing unleashes a terrible tragedy.
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REGINALD GIBBONS

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oxford University Press 2007			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0195143102
Music:	-			doollee no	#97455
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Reginald Gibbons (Translator), Charles Segal (Translator)
	Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
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Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#123222
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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DAVID GRENE

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0226307923
Music:	-			doollee no	#132442
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
	n/a
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JACQUELYN HONESS-MARTIN

Antigone

1st Produced:	Walworth Council Chambers, London			2005
Company:	InSite Performance
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#44611
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		2	Female	4
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	the fierce ghost of teenage martyr Antigone, who believes so passionately that her chosen path is the right one that she defies the law and brings tragedy tumbling down on herself and those she loves.
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PETER HULTON

Antigone

1st Produced:	Freehold Theatre Company			1970
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#17480
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	Large Cast
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	theme is resistance to oppression, bury your brother and die
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BRENDAN KENNELLY

Antigone

1st Produced:	Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>			1986
Company:	Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland >>>
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#19075
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		12	Female	4
Parts other:	doubling possible
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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DAVID LEVIN

Antigone

1st Produced:	Glasgow: Tron Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>			2007
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#75704
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		11	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	tells of the timeless clash between the need for political order and the demands of human decency and religous observance
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OWEN MCCAFFERTY

Antigone

1st Produced:	Part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's Waterfront Hall Studio, Belfast			2008
Company:	Prime Cut
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London, 2008 >>>			ISBN/ASIN:	9781848420175
Music:	-			doollee no	#91656
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	3
Parts other:	plus young boy plus extras
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
	A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights. The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone's brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Should Antigone obey Creon, or must she follow her conscience and lay her beloved brother to rest?
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Antigone

1st Produced:	Cork, Ireland			1999
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London, 2000			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#49471
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Directed by Athol Fugard&But it is McDonald's text that is the star of the evening, lending the play plenty of punch without depending too heavily on anachronistic language. The translator's focus on the central ideas has an emotional clarity that is entirely seductive. There may be, Sophocles and McDonald whisper to anyone who will listen, a tremendous moral power in compromise. Luke Clancy, London Times (July 21, 1999)
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BLAKE MORRISON

Antigone

1st Produced:	Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford			2003
Company:	Northern Broadsides
1st Published:	www.northern-broadsides.co.uk , 2003			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#41942
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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CONALL MORRISON

Antigone

1st Produced:	Town Hall Theatre, Galaway, Ireland >>>			2003
Company:	Produced by Storytellers Theatre Company, Dublin >>> In association with Cork Opera House, Cork, I
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#24912
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	This adaptation sets the action in the contemporary Middle East and uses the story of Antigone's passionate defiance of her Uncle Creon's autocratic rule of law to investigate the current situation there and the West's response to it. full information available from Irish Playography >>>
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ADRIAN OSMOND

Antigone

1st Produced:	Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>>			15 Mar 2012
Company:	Lung Ha's Theatre Company & NYOS: Futures
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#138000
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Genre:	adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	In a war-torn land, a young woman takes a stand against her city. Antigone's parents are gone. Her two brothers have destroyed each other in battle. One of them had been branded a traitor - so now anyone caught burying his body will be punished with death. But Antigone cannot desert that duty to her family. As defiance and division mount, surely more bodies will fall to the ground. . .Lung Ha's Theatre Company are renowned inclusive theatre specialists and CATS award winners. Here they combine forces with NYOS Futures, the contemporary music ensemble of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, to forge a blazing new interpretation of one of the most celebrated and timeless dramatic works ever created.
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NICK REEVE

Antigone

1st Produced:	Wimbledon Studio, London			1999
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#45536
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Genre:	Sung play
Parts:	Male		5	Female	3
Parts other:	1b. Chorus male and female min. 6, no max
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Written with Sylvia Denning. There is no dancing so 'Musical' is misleading
Synopsis:	The show follows closely Sophocles' play, but adds a number of new scenes to expand the story, and bring into focus the other characters surrounding the main protagonists: Antigone and her uncle King Creon. Antigone is a tale of family struggles set against the background of a repressive government. The story relates how Antigone, Oedipus' daughter, opposes the might of state and family. She knows that her crime will be discovered and that the penalty will be death, but, for her, principles are more important than personal safety and happiness.
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CHARLES SEGAL

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oxford University Press 2007			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0195143102
Music:	-			doollee no	#97456
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Reginald Gibbons (Translator), Charles Segal (Translator)
	Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
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DON TAYLOR

Antigone

1st Produced:	- - -			1993
Company:	n/a
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Music:	-			doollee no	#91381
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	2
Parts other:	boy
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	After the deaths of her parents, Oedipus and Jocasta, her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fight over the throne of Thebes and kill one another. Her uncle, Creon, takes over the rule of the city and buries Eteocles with a hero's funeral, but casts out Polynices as a traitor and leaves his body unburied. Antigone is determined to give her brother the dignity of a proper burial, but Creon declares that anyone disobeying his orders will be punished by death.
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C A TRYPANIS

Antigone

1st Produced:	Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>			1984
Company:	n/a
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Music:	-			doollee no	#35005
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	3
Parts other:	chorus
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	fear of eternal damnation without burial
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TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER

Antigone

1st Produced:	Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>>			20 May 2011
Company:	Primavera
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#127680
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Genre:	translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	large cast
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Following years of oppressive rule and violent insurgency, the Middle Eastern city-state of Thebes has arrived at a crisis-point. Two brothers, both terrorist bandits, have killed each other in a bloody battle just outside the city. The new ruler, General Kreon, calls in the West to enforce law and order. As dawn breaks over Thebes, Kreon and his Western allies decide enough is enough. One of the brothers will be buried with full honours. The other will be left to rot in the sand. As the streets begin to return to normal and the dust settles, the last person Kreon expects to defy him is his own niece: Antigone.
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ROB WILLIAMS

Antigone

1st Produced:	The Cellar, Oxford			- - -
Company:	Flipping The Bird
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#134402
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Genre:	Translation/adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Creon controls Thebes with a mix of drugs and music from a S&M club. Antigone rebels
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SARAH WOODS

Antigone

1st Produced:	Citizens Theatre Circle, Glasgow, UK >>>			2000
Company:	TAG
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#38154
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		4	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	one friendless young woman takes on the might of the Theban State
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NICK DARKE

Antigone At Hell's Mouth

1st Produced:	Royal Shakespeare Company			1992
Company:	National Youth Theatre with Kneehigh Theatre Company
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#44009
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	set in post-apoclyptic dystopia with Cornish nationalists fighting for independence from England
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SEAMUS HEANEY

Burial at Thebes, The

1st Produced:	Abbey Theatre, Abbey Stage, Dublin >>>			2004
Company:	Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland >>>
1st Published:	Faber and Faber, London, 2004			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#49760
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		9	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. adaptation of classic tragedy, Antigone
Synopsis:	Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama. Faithful to the 'local row' and to the fierce specificity of the play's time and place, The Burial at Thebes honours the separate and irreconcilable claims of its opposed voices, as they enact the ancient but perennial conflict between family and state in a time of crisis, pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service. Above all, The Burial at Thebes honours the sovereign urgency and grandeur of the Antigone, in which language speaks truth to power, then and now.
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MARTIN CRIMP

Cruel And Tender

1st Produced:	Young Vic Theatre, 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LZ >>>			04 May 2004
Company:	Wiener Festwochen
1st Published:	Faber and Faber, London, 2004			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#41594
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	5
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles, adapted from Trachiniae
Synopsis:	Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Amelia can't sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He's a great general and this seems to be a decisive victory. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold on to his love. Martin Crimp's new play takes Sophocles' ancient story of marriage and violence - 'The Trachiniae' - and propels it into a modern world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism
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SEAMUS HEANEY

Cure At Troy

1st Produced:	Guildhall, Derry, Ireland			1990
Company:	Field Day Theatre Company
1st Published:	Faber and Faber, London, 1990			ISBN/ASIN:	9780374522896
Music:	-			doollee no	#16089
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		3	Female	4
Parts other:	doubling possible
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. A version of "Philoctetes"
	n/a
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ANNE CARSON

Electra

1st Produced:	The Daryl Roth Theatre in New York.			2005
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oxford University Press, 2003			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#43358
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		4	Female	4
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Entrapped by her grief and a burning sense of injustice, Elektra battles to find purpose in life after the murder of her father. Will revenge bring her relief and freedom? Or will it continue to trap her family in an endless cycle of violence?
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JO COMBES

Electra

1st Produced:	Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester, UK >>>			2005
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#49323
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		2	Female	4
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	transplants the scenario to a Galway beach in a thoroughly modern radical new text.
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NICK ENRIGHT

Electra

1st Produced:	Melbourne			1978
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#11038
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles; Written in collaboration with Frank Hauser
Synopsis:
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Electra

1st Produced:	Sledgehammer Theatre			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London, 2004			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#49480
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	2
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Translated by Marianne McDonald and Michael Walton
Synopsis:	Vox Hellenic, the Sledgehammer-GrassRoots Greeks collaboration, concluded with a bang -- and and Electra shock. One of the best pairings of the series was Marianne McDonald's translation of Sophocles' "Electra," coupled with Luis Alfaro's Spanglish adaptation, "Electricidad." McDonald's translation was written in collaboration with J. Michael Walton , and it had her usual clarity coupled with more poetic lyricism. Lovely reading, especially strong in the performances of Anne Tran in the title role, a weepy, wailing affair, extremely well carried off; and Brennan Taylor as her peripatetic brother, Orestes; Lisel Gorel as her sister Chrysothemis. Alfaro spins it all on its head and turns it southward& with a charming and delightful bilingual adaptation that was neck-snapping in its pitch-perfect timing (especially given that the cast had only one rehearsal!). They were all nimble and convincing in this intriguing story of a Barrio family stuck in The Life. The father was brutally murdered, gangland style, arranged by his power-hungry wife, who wants to take over the family 'business.' April Doctolero was terrific as Electricidad, with strong performances put in by Rene Pena as her nasty, chain-smoking mother, Clemencia; Kim Miller compelling as born-again sister, Cristina; Juan Manzo potent as the Vegas-escapee, Orestes; and Raul Moncada unwavering as the familia's steadfast friend, Nino. Wonderful way to spend an afternoon.
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NICK PAYNE

Electra

1st Produced:	Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Road, Above the Prince Albert Pub, Notting Hill, London, W11 3HQ >>>			13 April 2011
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oberon Books (2011) >>>			ISBN/ASIN:	978-1849430616
Music:	-			doollee no	#125487
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		3	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
	When young Electra's father is murdered by her mother, her world changes irrevocably. Ten years on, bound by grief and unwilling to forgive, Electra surrenders to an all-consuming desire for revenge that propels her toward a bloody and terrifying conclusion.
Further Reference:	Theatre Record Volume XXXI Issue 08 Page 404

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ALFRED PREISSER

Electra

1st Produced:	Classical Theatre of Harlem (HSA), NY			2007
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#67215
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		3	Female	5
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Sophocles's Electra, written around 409 B.C., is based on the legend of the House of Atreus, a story which contemporary Greek audiences would have known from childhood. The major themes of this story concern retribution for crimes committed within the family of Atreus, who was Electra's grandfather. Electra's duty in the play is to avenge her father's murder, but this involves killing her own mother, another crime that will have consequences down the line. The text is a completely new take on the story. - press release
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NICHOLAS RUDALL

Electra

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Samuel French, NY,			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#30303
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Genre:	Verse Drama
Parts:	Male		4	Female	3
Parts other:	extras
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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J MICHAEL WALTON

Electra

1st Produced:	Sledgehammer Theatre			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London, 2004			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#36042
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	2
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Translated by Marianne McDonald and Michael Walton
Synopsis:	Vox Hellenic, the Sledgehammer-GrassRoots Greeks collaboration, concluded with a bang -- and and Electra shock. One of the best pairings of the series was Marianne McDonald's translation of Sophocles' "Electra," coupled with Luis Alfaro's Spanglish adaptation, "Electricidad." McDonald's translation was written in collaboration with J. Michael Walton , and it had her usual clarity coupled with more poetic lyricism. Lovely reading, especially strong in the performances of Anne Tran in the title role, a weepy, wailing affair, extremely well carried off; and Brennan Taylor as her peripatetic brother, Orestes; Lisel Gorel as her sister Chrysothemis. Alfaro spins it all on its head and turns it southward& with a charming and delightful bilingual adaptation that was neck-snapping in its pitch-perfect timing (especially given that the cast had only one rehearsal!). They were all nimble and convincing in this intriguing story of a Barrio family stuck in The Life. The father was brutally murdered, gangland style, arranged by his power-hungry wife, who wants to take over the family 'business.' April Doctolero was terrific as Electricidad, with strong performances put in by Rene Pena as her nasty, chain-smoking mother, Clemencia; Kim Miller compelling as born-again sister, Cristina; Juan Manzo potent as the Vegas-escapee, Orestes; and Raul Moncada unwavering as the familia's steadfast friend, Nino. Wonderful way to spend an afternoon.
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LEE BREUER

Gospel At Colonus, The

1st Produced:	Edinburgh			1982
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1989			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	Studio cast recording: Warner Brothers (1-25182)			doollee no	#4599
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	2
Parts other:	singers
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles; Music Bob Telson; lyrics by Bob Telson; Lee Breuer; book by Lee Breuer. Based on the play "Oedipus At Colonos"
Synopsis:	Brings together black and white, pagan and Christian, ancient and in a triumph of reconciliation.
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BOB TELSON

Gospel At Colonus, The

1st Produced:	Edinburgh			1982
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1989			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	Studio cast recording: Warner Brothers (1-25182)			doollee no	#126765
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	2
Parts other:	singers
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles; Music Bob Telson; lyrics by Bob Telson; Lee Breuer; book by Lee Breuer. Based on the play "Oedipus At Colonos"
Synopsis:	Brings together black and white, pagan and Christian, ancient and in a triumph of reconciliation.
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AOLE T MILLER

I Kreon

1st Produced:	Walkerspace, NY			2007
Company:	New Moon Rep and Roust Theatre Company
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#75535
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	a contemporary verse adaptation by Aole T. Miller of Sophocles's classic drama Antigone. This description is from the press release: "I Kreon focuses on Kreon's point of view. How does the leader of a shattered nation, a nation whose Towers have fallen, begin the process of rebuilding and reuniting that nation? How does he best honor the dead? What sacrifice is he willing to make to secure this rebuilt nation? Dealing with the issue of being an American today, I Kreon is set in the post-apocalyptic world of New Thebes and asks the poignant question, 'Can a modern ruler rebuilding a nation destroyed by terrorism be both a benevolent 'father' and an officer of the state?'" - press release
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BRAN SOLO

King Oedipus

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#119288
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Genre:	Musical
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Based on "Oedipus Rex"
Synopsis:	n/a
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STEVEN BERKOFF

Oedipus

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	in Steven Berkoff Plays 3, Faber and Faber, London, 2000			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#3022
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		3	Female	1
Parts other:	doubling
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	My version of Oedipus seeks to examine the play and occasionally peer beneath the tendency to strut and pose, to high-blown rhetoric and an air of self-importance somehow unavoidable in versions of Greek tragedy. I also sought to relate some events to images of today since the greatness of Greek tragedy is that its themes deal with the power of natural forces and the cycle of life and death. So its shadow lies across the years and its arguments are mankind's into perpetuity. I see Oedipus as a modern man, self-made, tough and bold, who uses language as a weapon to cut through verbal adiposity and obliqueness. He is more of a strutter whose stance relates to him having always to battle against some force determined to defeat him. Whether at the crossroads where he destroyed his father and the officious guards, or the Sphinx, he seeks to combat fate and leaves his adopted home so as not to fall into its predicted trap. So when yet another problem in Thebes raises its many heads Oedipus is already fight trained.
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Oedipus

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
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Music:	-			doollee no	#123223
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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FRANK MCGUINNESS

Oedipus

1st Produced:	Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>			2008
Company:	National Theatre
1st Published:	Faber and Faber, London, 2008			ISBN/ASIN:	978-1571242238
Music:	-			doollee no	#38849
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		8	Female	1
Parts other:	chorus, children, extras
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
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BLAKE MORRISON

Oedipus

1st Produced:	Viaduct, Halifax			2001
Company:	Northern Broadsides
1st Published:	www.northern-broadsides.co.uk , 2003			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#24911
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		8	Female	3
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Revival
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CHRISTOPHER STACE

Oedipus

1st Produced:	Manchester			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Oberon Books, London, 1987			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#33058
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	3
Parts other:	chorus
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus the King fulfil all the prophesies
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DAVID STUTTARD

Oedipus

1st Produced:	- - -			2003
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#54683
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Environmental degradation, an epidemic sweeping the nation, a head of state so certain of his own abilities that he sees any criticism as a threat. But what if he is, himself, the problem? And how will he accept the truth?
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ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN

Oedipus

1st Produced:	Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN			15 Jan 2005
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Playscripts, Inc			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#123857
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Genre:	adaptation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	1
Parts other:	6 either
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	A plague grips the city of Thebes. Desperate to save his people, King Oedipus sends a messenger to the oracle at Delphi and discovers that the city's salvation lies in finding and punishing the murderer of the former king, Laius, who was brutally slain by a stranger at a crossroads years ago. When Oedipus orders a manhunt, he unknowingly sets the wheels of his own destruction in motion. This lean, contemporary version brings a new, poignant power to this primal work that is the cornerstone of Western drama.
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KENNETH MCLEISH

Oedipus �

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London,			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#48617
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Complications come fast and furious as the wife of a noble lord misinterprets a note.
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ROBERT KELLY

Oedipus After Colonus

1st Produced:	HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams Theater 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013			10 Sep 2010
Company:	Dangerous Ground Productions
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#118971
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Genre:	Piece
Parts:	Male		2	Female	4
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	The acclaimed poet Robert Kelly brings you the story of Oedipus at the moment of his death. What happens when man meets the gods? How do we stop being what we have always been, do we end, can we know? - nytheatre.com
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Oedipus At Colonus

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#123224
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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DAVID GRENE

Oedipus At Colonus

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0226307923
Music:	-			doollee no	#132443
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
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EAMON GRENNAN

Oedipus at Colonus

1st Produced:	14th Street Theatre, NY			2008
Company:	Handcart Ensemble
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#78814
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Translated by Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger
Synopsis:	Oedipus at Colonus builds on the events in Sophocles earlier Oedipus the King. Stained by the unwitting crimes of his past, a blind and aging Oedipus roams the earth in exile from the city that once hailed him as a savior. Happening upon the sacred grove prophesied as his final resting place, he prepares to enter the next life and put his troubled history behind him. At the very moment of this seeming deliverance, warring factions from the city that once banished Oedipus try to compel his return, hearing from an oracle that his presence now offers supernatural protection. Oedipus resists them, determined in his final moments to remove himself from worldly corruption and strife. Written by Sophocles in his 90th year, Oedipus at Colonus is Sophocles final, conciliatory reflection on the human condition: Hobbled by baseness yet capable of transcendence - press release
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JOANNIS GRYPARIS

Oedipus At Colonus

1st Produced:	The City Center, NY			1976
Company:	National Theatre of Greece
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#42133
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Written in 402 B.C., some 20 years after the far more successful and widely performed Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus is set in a village outside Athens. By now, Oedipus is old and blind. Exiled by his sons and Creon, he has come to Colonus with his daughter Antigone after years of wandering. He recalls Apollo's prophecy that he would find rest in a grove such as he finds there and refuses to obey an order to leave. When the Chorus, made up of the old men of Colonus, discovers his identity, they are horrified despite his insistence on his innocence. Oedipus's other daughter, Ismene, arrives with word that his sons are warring over his throne. Another prophecy has promised that the city that shelters Oedipus's body will be the victor. Ismene warns Oedipus: Creon will come to take hun home. When Theseus, the king, arrives, Oedipus requests protection and explains the prophecy of victory. He is made a citizen. When Creon attempts to persuade Oedipus to return, he refuses and sees his daughters seized. Theseus arrests Creon and rescues the daughters. While searching for them he has encountered Oedipus' son Polynices, whom Oedipus only reluctantly agrees to see. Polynices begs for support, only to be told that he is destined to be killed by his brother. Oedipus bids farewell to his daughters and the gods summon him as his daughters voice their lamentations.
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RACHEL KITZINGER

Oedipus at Colonus

1st Produced:	14th Street Theatre, NY			2008
Company:	Handcart Ensemble
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#78815
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Translated by Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger
Synopsis:	Oedipus at Colonus builds on the events in Sophocles earlier Oedipus the King. Stained by the unwitting crimes of his past, a blind and aging Oedipus roams the earth in exile from the city that once hailed him as a savior. Happening upon the sacred grove prophesied as his final resting place, he prepares to enter the next life and put his troubled history behind him. At the very moment of this seeming deliverance, warring factions from the city that once banished Oedipus try to compel his return, hearing from an oracle that his presence now offers supernatural protection. Oedipus resists them, determined in his final moments to remove himself from worldly corruption and strife. Written by Sophocles in his 90th year, Oedipus at Colonus is Sophocles final, conciliatory reflection on the human condition: Hobbled by baseness yet capable of transcendence - press release
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Oedipus at Colonus

1st Produced:	6th@Penn Theatre, San Diego, USA >>>			2003
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#49473
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		9	Female	2
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Directed by George Ye. "There's humor, perhaps not all of it Sophoclean, in McDonald's direct language&." Anne Marie Welsh, San Diego Union (April 12, 2004). "Despite the passage of time and the absence of more sophisticated theatre techniques, the story in Marianne McDonald's fluid translation is still engaging drama." Bill Fark, North County Times (April 15, 2004). "Oedipus, Schmoedipus&As Long As He Loves His Mother&McDonald used the line I borrowed to title this section &and also said that the Greek tragedies, on which she is an expert, should be updated and re-translated every decade or so, to keep them fresh, relevant, and presented in a language that people can readily understand. Well, she's certainly doing her part, making her way through the whole tragic canon, with translations that are clear, colloquial and comprehensible&..there are several memorable lines that go right to the heart and soul of our current cultural climate; 'so much for fame, when it trickles away and comes to nothing.' 'I was a victim, not a criminal.' 'Trouble for the sake of a parent should be no trouble at all.' A country's power withers, just like a man's body." ' You ignored our sovereignty and took what you wanted by force.' (That one really hit home.) Pat Launer, KPBS (AIRDATE April 16, 2004)
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DON TAYLOR

Oedipus at Colonus

1st Produced:	Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT >>>			10 Jan 2012
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#135848
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Genre:	translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Following Sophocles Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannos, in this third and final play of the series we encounter Oedipus as an old, blind and penniless man, who, cared for by his daughter Antigone only, arrives at an olive grove outside Colonus after restlessly travelling the country. In this holy place, he has to face the false pretence of Creon and his son Polynices, who try to persuade him into coming back to Thebes for their own selfish reasons. He is forced to tell his tantalizing story all over again until finally, with the help of King Theseus, he is able to at last make his peace with this world. A unique chance to experience the gripping tragedy in a mixture of English, modern Greek and its original ancient Greek language! There will be subtitles for the Greek parts of the play
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Oedipus at Kolonos

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1st Published:	in The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst (2004)			ISBN/ASIN:	1-55849-454-5
Music:	-			doollee no	#103136
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Genre:	Drama Translation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	2
Parts other:	Chorus of men; one silent woman servant; soldiers (silent).
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles.
	Old, blind, depleted in body by years of wandering through Attika in the care of his daughter Antigone, Oedipus arrives at the sacred grove of the Eumenides in Kolonos, a village on the outskirts of Athens. Apollo had promised years ago, during the same session at Delphi in which the god warned the young Oedipus he was destined to commit patricide and incest, that he'd receive a kind death in this grove. Forced from experience to realize that Apollo's oracles should be trusted, Oedipus now presents himself at the appointed place, ready to die. Defiantly stationing himself just outside this grove at Kolonos, Oedipus in succession receives: a delegation of Old Men from Kolonos; his daughter Ismene, who arrives from Thebes on horseback bringing shocking prophecies; King Theseus of Athens, who offers him refuge; Kreon, who tries to kidnap him back to Thebes; and finally his disowned son Polyneikes. At last thunder and lightning announce that it's time to keep his rendezvous with a wondrous death, in the course of which the gods of the underworld symbolically re-enact, and absolve him of, the horror of the very crimes they drove him to commit.
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JEREMY KINGSTON

Oedipus At The Crossroads

1st Produced:	King's Head Theatre, London, EUR >>>			1977
Company:	Two Minds Theatre Company
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#19348
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Genre:	Play/Drama
Parts:	Male		6	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9830/43
Synopsis:	a witty exercise in chucking overboard the classical version of gloomy oracular predictions
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PETER CONSTANTINE

Oedipus Cycle, The

1st Produced:	Pearl Theatre, NY, USA >>>			2008
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#90813
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		4	Female	2
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	The Pearl Theatre Company kicks off its 25th anniversary season with a world premiere translation of Sophocles's The Oedipus Cycle by two time PEN Literary Award finalist Peter Constantine. This groundbreaking production offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience the complete story of Oedipus and his family in a single sweeping production that explores the legend and legacy of one family's struggle for grace and wisdom through suffering and loss. Peter Constantine's raw, bold translation of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone has been specially adapted for this unique three hour Pearl event, directed by The Pearl Theatre Company's founder and artistic director Shepard Sobel. - nytheatre.com
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Oedipus Rex

1st Produced:	Building Stage, Chicago			31 May 2009
Company:	The Hypocrites
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#123225
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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CHRIS KANURKAS

Oedipus Rex

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#48799
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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ALEX ROE

Oedipus Rex

1st Produced:	Metropolitan Playhouse, New York			2001
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#108696
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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E F WATLING

Oedipus Rex

1st Produced:	Rosemary Branch, London			2003
Company:	Two Minds Theatre Company
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#36318
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		6	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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Oedipus The King

1st Produced:	University of Utah, Salt Lake City			Aug 1980
Company:	University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1st Published:	University of Massachusetts Press, 1982			ISBN/ASIN:	1-55849-454-5
Music:	-			doollee no	#102959
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Genre:	Drama Translation
Parts:	Male		7	Female	1
Parts other:	Chorus, male; silent servants and attendants, female
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Additional performances in Nashville, TN, August 1983, 6 perf; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Nov.1985, 6 perf, and Nazareth College, 8 perf. Oct, Nov 1998. A revised version of the play was published in 2004 in The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. ISBN: 1-55849-454-5
	Apollo contrives for Oedipus to rise from an unwanted, abandoned newborn to become ruler of Thebes, then to be destroyed, self-blinded, and ultimately exiled. Faced with the terrifying prediction that he'll kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus flees Korinth and the parents he believes to be his own. In a fit of road-rage he kills several men and arrives in Thebes just in time to put down the Sphinx, who was systematically disposing of those too dull-witted to solve her riddle. Oedipus is rewarded by grateful Thebans with their vacant throne and the newly widowed queen; she bears him children whom he will discover are his own half-brothers and -sisters. Nothing in Oedipus' world, and by implication our own, is in reality what it seems. Sophokles peppers the dialogue with double entrendres and puns that point to what the king doesn't know about his predicament-but readers and audiences do know. Ingenuity and swiftness of plot, as well as razor-sharp poetry, keep contemporary audiences riveted by the damage Oedipus suffers, and by the human eloquence with which he articulates the cosmic injustice the gods inflict on him.
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DAVID GRENE

Oedipus The King

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Contained in: "Sophocles 1" published by University of Chicago Press" 1991			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0226307923
Music:	-			doollee no	#132444
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
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LEWIS HETHERINGTON

Oedipus The King

1st Produced:	Glasgow, Bridge / touring			2006
Company:	National Theatre Of Scotland
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#58864
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Genre:	Piece
Parts:	Male		2	Female	2
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles, created by Young Company and Lewis Hetherington
Synopsis:	based on a simple metanarrative that has the story of Oedipus told by a group of four contemporary student types on a camping holiday in some remote part of the country. Gathered round a bonfire, necking whisky, sucking on a hubble-bubble pipe full of dope, and determined to frighten one another out of their wits, they gradually converge on the story of the Theban king who, ignorant of his own birth, comes to power by killing his father and marrying his mother, only to see the gods punish his city with horrific plague and pestilence, until his unwitring crimes come to light, and are purged in a nightmare of shame, horror, bereavement and selfmutilation. Joyce McMillan, Scotsman
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JEFF RAZ

Oedipus The King

1st Produced:	Miracle Theater, San Francisco			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#109779
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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DAVID GREIG

Oedipus The Visionary

1st Produced:	Tramway@Fruitmarket, Glasgow			2000
Company:	Theatre Babel
1st Published:	Capercaillie Books, Edinburgh (2005) >>>			ISBN/ASIN:	0954962516
Music:	-			doollee no	#50128
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		4	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Part of "The Greeks"
	"David Greig's fine adaptation produces a clarity of narrative and a simple, resonant language that renders the epic accessible." Robert Thompson, Herald
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SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Tyrannos

1st Produced:	Contact, Manchester			1992
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#63992
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Genre:	n/a
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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DON TAYLOR

Oedipus Tyrannos

1st Produced:	Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT >>>			15 Feb 2011
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#125455
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	The play is about revealing the potential horrors beneath the surface-beauty of life, as of art, illusion and reality. It is also a meta-tragedy, a tragedy about tragedy. The proportional relationships in tragedy, however, differ between the ancient and the modern writer. Whereas Shakespeare and Pirandello use the awareness of illusion to explore theatricality, Sophocles uses theatricality to explore the moral, religious and metaphysical questions, raised by the suffering of Oedipus
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Oedipus Tyrannus

1st Produced:	6th@Penn Theatre, San Diego, USA >>>			2003
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#49474
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	0
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	Directed by George Ye. "McDonald's translation is terrific; it's poetic and lyrical, crystalline in its clarity." Pat Launer, KPBS (October 2003). "In UCSD Prof. Marianne McDonald's clear and poetic translation, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus plays in a smashing head-on production&" Charlene Baldridge, The Beacon (10/33). "'Call no one happy/ Until that person has ended life /Free from sorrow.' These words come from Marianne McDonald's poetic new translation&" Jennifer de Poyen, San Diego Union (October 18, 2003)
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MARK GREENE

On Warning Oedipus

1st Produced:	- - -			1989
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#119263
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Genre:	Drama
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. Based on "Oedipus"
Synopsis:	n/a
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KEITH JOHNSTONE

Philoctetes

1st Produced:	London			1964
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#18324
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	0
Parts other:	chorus
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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KENNETH MCLEISH

Philoctetes

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	in "Sophocles, Plays: Two" Methuen, London, 1990			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#23511
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	0
Parts other:	chorus
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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STEPHEN PORTER

Philoctetes

1st Produced:	Lucille LortelTheatre, New York			13 Jan 1959
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#127976
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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KAREN SUNDE

Philoctetes

1st Produced:	New York			1983
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#33687
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	0
Parts other:	chorus
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
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Philokteles

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#123226
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	n/a
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GARY BECK

Searching Satyrs

1st Produced:	Nat Horne Theater, New York			Jan 1988
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#138526
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original playwright Sophocles. Original title "Ichneutae"
Synopsis:	Hermes steals the sacred cows of Apollo. Apollo sends the Satyrs to retrieve them. They find that Hermes has skinned two of them and made a lyre from them. When Apollo hears the sweet music that Hermes plays he forgives him
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ROGER LANCELYN GREEN

Searching Satyrs

1st Produced:	Hovenden Players			- - -
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Edmund Ward 1946			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#69528
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original playwright Sophocles. Original title "Ichneutae"
Synopsis:	Hermes steals the sacred cows of Apollo. Apollo sends the Satyrs to retrieve them. They find that Hermes has skinned two of them and made a lyre from them. When Apollo hears the sweet music that Hermes plays he forgives him
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LIZ LOCHHEAD

Thebans - Oedipus Jocasta Antigone

1st Produced:	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival			2003
Company:	Theatre Babel
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London, 2003			ISBN/ASIN:	1854597574
Music:	-			doollee no	#21143
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	4
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles and Euripides
Synopsis:	Epic love and war stories based on Oedipus and Antigone myths.
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TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER

Thebans, The

1st Produced:	Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Other Place, England, EUR >>>			1991
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Faber and Faber, London, 1992			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#36718
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		9	Female	15
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles (from Antigone, Oedipus at Kolonus and Oedipus Tyrannos)
Synopsis:	thrillers of ideas, moral and political battlefields
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JOANNA LAURENS

Three Birds, The

1st Produced:	Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London, EUR >>>			2000
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#57567
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Genre:	Play/Drama
Parts:	Male		3	Female	2
Parts other:	chorus
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles after his lost tragedy Tereus
Synopsis:	The story of the Thracian king who married Procne but desired her sister Philomela, raped her and cut out her tongue. She managed to send her sister an account of the crime woven into a strip of embroidery, and a Greek queen's typical revenge followed: kill her child serve him up to her husband tastily cooked and esit turned into a swallow. Jeremy Kingston, The Times
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ERIC BENTLEY

Time To Die, A

1st Produced:	New York			1967
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	Grove Press, New York, 1967			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#2950
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		8	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:	From Greek myth about Antigone's defiance of Creon, King of Thebes, in her loyalty to her rebel brothers.
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MICHAEL HACKETT

Trackers, The

1st Produced:	UCLA School of Theater			2010
Company:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#138525
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Genre:	Adaptation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original playwright Sophocles. Original title "Ichneutae"
Synopsis:	Hermes steals the sacred cows of Apollo. Apollo sends the Satyrs to retrieve them. They find that Hermes has skinned two of them and made a lyre from them. When Apollo hears the sweet music that Hermes plays he forgives him
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Women of Trachis

1st Produced:	University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA			Nov 1992
Company:	University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1st Published:	in the North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 74, Number 4, pp. 27-68 (Fall 2007)			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#102960
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Genre:	Drama Translation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	1
Parts other:	Chorus of women; one silent woman; soldiers (silent).
Notes:	Original Playwright - Sophocles. 1Publication forthcoming in Sophocles Outcasts: Aias & Philoktetes, Elektra & Women of Trakkhis, from University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.
Synopsis:	Deianeira, the home-bound and devoted wife of Herakles, opens the play by describing her unhappy marriage: her husband for the past twelve years has a custom of returning from his heroic chores only long enough to get her pregnant; then he's off again, encountering compliant women along with formidable monsters. Desperate after fifteen months without any news of him, Deianeira sends her son Hyllus to find his father. Just after Hyllus sets out, a messenger from Herakles turns up escorting a contingent of female slaves, including the strikingly attractive but totally mute Iole. Eventually Deianeira learns that Iole is actually Herakles' concubine, a princess whom he loves. Unwilling to be displaced, Deianeira soaks a robe in a love potion and sends it back to Herakles via the messenger. Unfortunately the centaur who gave Deianeira the potion had another agenda than making Deianeira irresistible to her husband. When Herakles makes his entrance, he is in no condition to love anyone, in screaming pain from third-degree acid burns. He demands Hyllus carry out his appalling final wishes: to burn Herakles alive and then marry Iole. In this play Sophokles explores shocking but psychologically astute ways to show good people going wrong.
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