Supported by the APGRD, University of Oxford and the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

This two-day event will take place on Monday 18th June at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (Oxford University) and Tuesday 19th June at The Central School of Speech & Drama (University of London).

Organised by postgraduates, this annual symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman drama, exploring the afterlife of ancient dramatic texts through re-workings of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy by writers and practitioners. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception of Greek and Roman drama. 

This year’s guest respondent is Professor Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland).

Postgraduates from across the globe working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The Symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of classics, modern languages and literature, or theatre studies.

Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.

There will be no registration fee, but participants will have to seek their own funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

This year's organisers are Brad Wilson (Oxford) and Dan Goad (London).

Programme

Day 1: Monday 18 June, Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles, Oxford

14:00-14.30 
Jarrid Looney (RHUL)
Lottie Parkyn (KCL)
Matt Shipton (KCL)
Helen Slaney (Oxford)
Henry Stead (Open University/Oxford)

14:30 -14:45 CAGR Conclusion and Conference Introduction
Chairs: Dr Fiona Macintosh (Director of APGRD), Professor Judith Hallett (Maryland)

Receiving Hierarchies
14:45 - 15:15 Nana Bilus Abaffy (Monash University): Power in Performance: Classical Performance Reception
15:15 - 15:45 Patrick Lucky Hadley (Toronto): Translating Aristophanes’ Audiences in Renaissance Germany  
                                   
15:45 - 16:00  Tea

Ancient Theory, Modern Practice
16:00 - 16:30   Tori L McKee (Open University): Re-constructing the Hippolytus: Modern adaptations of Racine’s Phèdre
16:30 - 17:00   Eliska Polackova (Masaryk University): Site-specific Seneca
17:00 - 17:30 Lucy Jackson (Oxford): The Hierarchies of Dance and Song in Ancient and Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy
                                   
Texts and Hierarchies
17:30 - 18:00 Bénédicte Barillé (EHESS, Paris): Paul Claudel's Translation Theory
18:00 - 18:30 Małgorzata Budzowska (Łódź): Contemporary performances of ancient dramas in Polish theatres
                                   
18:30   Buffet Supper                                                     

Day 2: Tuesday 19 June, Central School of Speech and Drama, London

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee             
                                   
Democratizing Tragedy
10:30 - 11:00   William Pinchin (Central): Theatre of reintegration: Jonathan Shay, Theatre of War, and Bravo 22 Company
11:00 - 11:30   Katerina Gotsi (UCL): Creon, Heman and the Chorus: Hierarchies in Aidan Mathews’ Antigone
                                   
Hierarchical Relations
11:00 - 11:30   Núria Llagüerri-Pubill (València): Hierarchies in Hippolytus
11:30 - 12:00   María Sebastià-Sáez (València): From Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis to Manuel Lassala’s Ifigenia in Aulide
12:35 - 13:05   Zachary Dunbar's 'Son', from Antigonex:samples, performed by Nando Messias (Central alumnus), soundscape by Luke Pajak
                                   
13:05 - 14:00   Lunch             

Hierarchy and Violence                                  
14:00 - 14:30   Zoa Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Three operas by La Fura dels Baus: between Greek tragedy and Roman spectacle
14:30 - 15:00   Daniela Palmeri (Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona): Hierarchies in the representation of Greek Myth in Colombia                            

15:00 - 15:30   Tea                 
                                   
Subverting Hierarchies                               
15:30 - 16:00   Maddalena Giovannelli (Università degli Studi di Milano): Subverting hierarchies in Italian classical productions
16:00 - 16:30   David Eudave Rosales (Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona): Tragedy through the Looking Glass: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Awry Approach to the Tragic

Hierarchy and the Body
16:30 - 17:00   Christina Kapadocha (Central): The Tragic Heroine through the Reception of the Actress
17:00 - 17:30  South Indian classical dance performance of choral lyrics from Euripides’ Medea - directed by Yana Zarifi-Sistovari and danced and choreographed by Ash Mukherjee with music devised and performed by Ash, Bangalore Prathap and Kate Wakeling.

Response           
17:30 - 18:00   Professor Judith Hallett (Maryland)