Delphiad

Delphiad

English

Proper noun

Delphiad (plural Delphiads)

1. An international drama festival held every two or three years.
   • 1955, The American Little Theatre Magazine:

     The Delphiad is an International Drama Festival held every two or three years at which university dramatic societies present either a classical play or one by a leading native dramatist.

   • 1976, John Haldane Blackie, Bradfield, 1850-1975:

     The play was taken by invitation to the fourth Delphiad at Saarbrücken which is 'for university students from all over Europe to present their versions of Greek plays'. The rules of the Delphiad that lay down that all actors must be from [...]

   • 2013, David Wiles, Christine Dymkowski, The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 277:

     Wilhelm Leyhausen spearheaded the post—Second World War Delphiad series of performances in ancient theatres across Europe, which were staged in order to bring young people together in the spirit of international cultural exchange [...]

   • 2013, Joshua Billings, Felix Budelmann, Fiona Macintosh, Choruses, Ancient and Modern, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 344:

     [...] an organization aiming to bring together European and international theatre groups, which met at biennial Delphiads held in different cities. The German group of the institute named as Collegium Delphicum produced new versions [...]