1981

The Greeks

Introduction From a preliminary talk to the actors   John Barton The translation   Kenneth Cavander The Greeks and The Royal Shakespeare Company The cast Approximate playing times of each play The Greeks The War Prologue (Euripides) Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) Achilles (Homer) The Trojan Women (Euripides) The Murders Hecuba (Euripides) Agamemnon (Aeschylus) Electra (Sophocles) The Gods Helen (Euripides) Orestes (Euripides) Andromache (Euripides) Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides)

Peter Stein: Germany’s leading theatre director

Exploring styles The Brechtian approach to the classics Theatre structures old and new the move to the Schaubühne, Berlin Theatre of revolution The myth of bourgeois individualism From bourgeois past to bourgeois present Antikenprojekt Confrontation with Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Memory Conclusion – Stein the explorer and the Schaubühne as model Theatre productions of Peter Stein