Product Code Database
He provided the translation into English of Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis for a production at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York in 1967, which Michael Cacoyannis directed.See the Internet Off-Broadway Database's article on this production . He directed a production of Euripides' The Bacchae at the Lyceum Theater in New York in 1968 and the US première of Genet's The Screens in 1971.See the NYT obituary and White (1993, 657). In 1973 he directed Euripides' Medea at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York, which opened on January 17.See The Internet Broadway Database's article on the production of Medea.
Volanakis served twice as the artistic director of the National Theatre of Northern Greece (1974 – 1977 & 1986 – 1989). In 1984 he directed a production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex for the National Theatre of Greece, which subsequently transferred to the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway theatre (opening on July 17 of that year).See the NYT's obituary and the Internet Broadway Database's article on this production.
Sources
|
|
