Greek and Roman Drama - Theatre History and Modern Performance (APGRD Public Lectures)

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Podcasts 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. For upcoming public events please visit th…

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    Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 74:59


    Alena Sarkissian gives public lecture, subtitled 'Theatre as a space of Spiritual Contemplation', on Greek Tragedy in the Czech Republic under Nazi Occupation.

    Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 74:59


    Alena Sarkissian gives public lecture, subtitled 'Theatre as a space of Spiritual Contemplation', on Greek Tragedy in the Czech Republic under Nazi Occupation.

    APGRD/TORCH panel discussion of 'We Are Not Princesses'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2019 39:05


    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, Antigone.

    'The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose': Edith Wharton and the Classics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 54:17


    The annual Classics & English lecture given in May 2019: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths) discusses Edith Wharton and the Classics.

    'The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose': Edith Wharton and the Classics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 54:17


    The annual Classics & English lecture given in May 2019: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths) discusses Edith Wharton and the Classics.

    Homer and the Discovery of the Pacific

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 54:44


    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.

    Homer and the Discovery of the Pacific

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 54:44


    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.

    Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2019 46:02


    Melinda Powers (CUNY) discusses modern American adaptations of Greek tragedy.

    The Dancer and the Ubermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 76:09


    An APGRD / DANSOX public lecture given in February 2019: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh) discusses the work of Isadora Duncan and Edward Gordon Craig.

    Classics and Social Justice

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2019 85:08


    An APGRD public lecture in October 2017: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) tells us about her work bringing Classics into prisons.

    The Politics of Greece's Theatrical Revolution, ca. 500 - ca. 300 BCE

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2019 52:06


    An APGRD public lecture given in April 2018: Peter Wilson (Sydney) discusses the relationship between Greek theatre and politics.

    Gestures and Postures: the construction and reception of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2019 82:21


    An APGRD / DANSOX public seminar given in November 2018: Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) discusses Noverre's use of gesture and the tragic.

    Tragedy's Endurance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2019 64:01


    An APGRD public lecture from March 2018: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin) speaks on the subject of her recent book, Tragedy's Endurance.

    Josephine Balmer: A Reading

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2019 67:04


    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. This reading is followed by a discussion with Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift, and Oliver Taplin.

    Director Wayne Jordan discusses Oedipus (Abbey Theatre 2015)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2017 67:49


    The Abbey Theatre's artistic director Wayne Jordan talks to Professor Fiona Macintosh, about his acclaimed 2015 production of Sophocles' Oedipus.

    Bodies and Texts: Attitudes towards Ancient Tragedy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2017 51:03


    Professor Ruth Webb (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III), examines attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity An APGRD Public Lecture from November 2016

    Playwright Frank McGuinness in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2016 48:46


    Acclaimed playwright Frank McGuinness talks with Fiona Macintosh about his work adapting Greek tragedies for modern theatre, particularly Antigone and Medea.

    Director Jonathan Kent in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2016 39:42


    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.

    The Oresteia at the Globe Theatre (2015)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2016 74:57


    Director, Adele Thomas, and playwright / translator, Rory Mullarkey, talk about their production of Aeschylus' Oresteia at the Globe Theatre, London in 2015

    E. M. Forster’s Tragic Interior

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2016 53:26


    David Scourfield, of Maynooth University, discusses E. M. Forster's relationship with Greek tragedy in the APGRD's second, annual Classics and English Lecture

    Director Ian Rickson on Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic (2014)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2016 59:19


    Director Ian Rickson talks about his 2014 production of Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic, London, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Electra

    Playwright Marina Carr in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2016 74:22


    Playwright Marina Carr discusses her adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba, which premiered at the RSC in 2015, and her long-standing relationship with Greek Tragedy The event began with Marina reading from her new Hecuba, and unfortunately a microphone-failure means that this portion of the podcast is very faint. The audio quality significantly improves for the in-conversation section.

    Poet and Playwright Gwyneth Lewis on writing Clytemnestra

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2016 59:02


    Poet and playwright, Gwyneth Lewis discusses her relationship with Greek tragedy and her play Clytemnestra.

    Actor Helen McCrory discusses Medea with Edith Hall

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2016 67:38


    Helen McCrory talks about her title role in the acclaimed 2014 production of Euripides' Medea at the National Theatre

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