The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas Kathryn Bosher (ed.) et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199661305.001.0001 Published: 2015 Online ISBN: 9780191756801 Print ISBN: 9780199661305 CHAPTER https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199661305.013.045 Pages 671–680 Published: 10 December 2015 Abstract Keywords: Canadian theater, Greek drama, Tyrone Guthrie, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Anne Carson, Deanne Kasokeo, Marie Clements Subject: Classical Reception, Classical Studies Series: Oxford Handbooks 38 Greek Drama in Canada: Women’s Voices and Minority Views  p. 671 Hallie Marshall This chapter provides a brief survey of the more signicant English-language productions of Greek drama in Canada. It is by no means an exhaustive account and for the most part ignores one-o| productions, focusing instead on performances of Greek drama which are notable, either for their long-term commitment to productions of Greek drama, or their signicance to Canadian literature and/or Canadian theater history, and which can be said to have had an impact that stretched beyond the original production and audience. The works discussed include productions by the Classics Drama Group at Trent University and the Vancouver-based United Players, Tyrone Guthrie’s 1957 production of Oedipus rex at the Stratford Festival, Gwendolyn MacEwen’s Trojan Women, Anne Carson’s translations of various classical plays, Deanne Kasokeo’s adaptation of Antigone, and Marie Clement’s play Age of Iron. GREEK drama does not hold a signicant place in the landscape of Canadian theater, but I hope to demonstrate that there are a number of places where, in various forms, classical plays have found fertile ground. The most signicant single production of an ancient Greek play in Canada was the 1954/5 Stratford Festival production of Oedipus Rex, using W. B. Yeats’s adaptation, directed by Tyrone Guthrie (see Introduction, this volume). Guthrie remounted the production in Australia in the 1970s, and Douglas Campbell, who played Oedipus in the original Stratford production and in the lm, directed a remount of Guthrie’s production for the Stratford Festival in 1997. The production was an important moment in the reception of Greek drama, for both its approach to staging and its impact, even though it was engaged far more with British theater traditions than Canadian ones. Guthrie wrote in his autobiography of the 1 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28281/chapter/214438419 by University of British Columbia user on 28 August 2022