Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
By Oxford University
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Description
Recordings of the lectures and in-conversation events with acclaimed actors, directors, playwrights, and academics, on modern and historic performances inspired by ancient Greek and Roman texts - hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford Classics Faculty).
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Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945) | Alena Sarkissian gives public lecture, subtitled 'Theatre as a space of Spiritual Contemplation', on Greek Tragedy in the Czech Republic under Nazi Occupation. | 12 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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APGRD/TORCH panel discussion of 'We Are Not Princesses' | Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Hal Scardino (producer) and Fiona Macintosh (APGRD) discuss We Are Not Princesses, a documentary about Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut telling their stories through the ancient Greek play, Antigon | 18 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose': Edith Wharton and the Classics | The annual Classics & English lecture given in May 2019: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths) discusses Edith Wharton and the Classics. | 3 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Homer and the Discovery of the Pacific | An APGRD public lecture given in May 2019: Henry Power (Exeter) discusses Homeric resonances in the work of Alexander Pope, John Keats, and Thom Gunn. | 21 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage | Melinda Powers (CUNY) discusses modern American adaptations of Greek tragedy. | 10 4 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Dancer and the Ubermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance | An APGRD / DANSOX public lecture given in February 2019: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh) discusses the work of Isadora Duncan and Edward Gordon Craig. | 25 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Classics and Social Justice | An APGRD public lecture in October 2017: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) tells us about her work bringing Classics into prisons. | 20 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Politics of Greece's Theatrical Revolution, ca. 500 - ca. 300 BCE | An APGRD public lecture given in April 2018: Peter Wilson (Sydney) discusses the relationship between Greek theatre and politics. | 20 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gestures and Postures: the construction and reception of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé | An APGRD / DANSOX public seminar given in November 2018: Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) discusses Noverre's use of gesture and the tragic. | 20 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tragedy's Endurance | An APGRD public lecture from March 2018: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin) speaks on the subject of her recent book, Tragedy's Endurance. | 19 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Josephine Balmer: A Reading | Poet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons. | 13 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director Wayne Jordan discusses Oedipus (Abbey Theatre 2015) | The Abbey Theatre's artistic director Wayne Jordan talks to Professor Fiona Macintosh, about his acclaimed 2015 production of Sophocles' Oedipus. | 3 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bodies and Texts: Attitudes towards Ancient Tragedy | Professor Ruth Webb (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III), examines attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity | 10 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Playwright Frank McGuinness in conversation with Fiona Macintosh | Acclaimed playwright Frank McGuinness talks with Fiona Macintosh about his work adapting Greek tragedies for modern theatre, particularly Antigone and Medea. | 11 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director Jonathan Kent in conversation with Fiona Macintosh | Theatre director Jonathan Kent discusses his work with Greek tragedies, including Medea with Diana Rigg in 1992-1994; Hecuba with Clare Higgins in 2004; and Oedipus with Ralph Fiennes in 2008 at the National Theatre. | 11 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Oresteia at the Globe Theatre (2015) | Director, Adele Thomas, and playwright / translator, Rory Mullarkey, talk about their production of Aeschylus' Oresteia at the Globe Theatre, London in 2015 | 11 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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E. M. Forster’s Tragic Interior | David Scourfield, of Maynooth University, discusses E. M. Forster's relationship with Greek tragedy in the APGRD's second, annual Classics and English Lecture | 10 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director Ian Rickson on Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic (2014) | Director Ian Rickson talks about his 2014 production of Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic, London, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Electra | 9 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Playwright Marina Carr in conversation with Fiona Macintosh | Playwright Marina Carr discusses her adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba, which premiered at the RSC in 2015, and her long-standing relationship with Greek Tragedy | 9 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Poet and Playwright Gwyneth Lewis on writing Clytemnestra | Poet and playwright, Gwyneth Lewis discusses her relationship with Greek tragedy and her play Clytemnestra. | 9 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Actor Helen McCrory discusses Medea with Edith Hall | Helen McCrory talks about her title role in the acclaimed 2014 production of Euripides' Medea at the National Theatre | 9 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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