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.

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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.

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    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.

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    '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.

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    '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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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