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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

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 - host... Read more

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

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 ... Read more

20 Mar 2019

52mins

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Tragedy's Endurance

Tragedy's Endurance

An APGRD public lecture from March 2018: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin) speaks on the subject of her re... Read more

19 Mar 2019

1hr 4mins

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Director Wayne Jordan discusses Oedipus (Abbey Theatre 2015)

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 producti... Read more

3 May 2017

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Bodies and Texts: Attitudes towards Ancient Tragedy

Bodies and Texts: Attitudes towards Ancient Tragedy

Professor Ruth Webb (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III), examines attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophist... Read more

10 Jan 2017

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The Oresteia at the Globe Theatre (2015)

The Oresteia at the Globe Theatre (2015)

Director, Adele Thomas, and playwright / translator, Rory Mullarkey, talk about their production of Aeschylus' Oresteia ... Read more

11 Aug 2016

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

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 Scot... Read more

9 Aug 2016

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E. M. Forster’s Tragic Interior

E. M. Forster’s Tragic Interior

David Scourfield, of Maynooth University, discusses E. M. Forster's relationship with Greek tragedy in the APGRD's secon... Read more

10 Aug 2016

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

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... Read more

20 Mar 2019

1hr 22mins

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Classics and Social Justice

Classics and Social Justice

An APGRD public lecture in October 2017: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) tells us about her work bringing Cla... Read more

20 Mar 2019

1hr 25mins

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Playwright Marina Carr in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

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-s... Read more

9 Aug 2016

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