The Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama is organised by the APGRD, University of Oxford, and the University of London. This two-day event will take place on Tuesday 18th June at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (University of London) and Wednesday 19th June at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (Oxford University). Everyone is welcome, no booking is required.
Programme
Day 1: Tuesday 18 June
RR 1 & 2 (West Block), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
11:00 Registration
11:15 – 11:45 Brad Wilson (Oxford) A Past Viewed: Stanley Cavell’s Receivers
11:45 – 12:15 María Sebastià-Sáez (València) Educando a Rita: A Study of a Contemporary Refiguration of Pygmalion
12:15 – 12:45 Nana Bilus Abaffy (Monash): Can't Kill My Idol: Contorted Regression to a Primal Tragic Moment in Aeschylus
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Thalia Mari Papadopoulou (Roehampton): ‘Mapping’ Ancient Greek Orchesis: An Alternative Interpretation
14:30 – 15:00 Tsikoura Charitini (Nanterre) The Antique Female Myth: A Gender Study in the Contemporary Performing Arts in Europe of the Late 20th Century to the Early 21st Century
15:00 – 15:30 Núria Llagüerri Pubill (València) Intertextuality as a Common Bond Between Past and Future: The Case of Phaedra
15: 30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 16:30 Raphael Cormack (Columbia) Tawfiq al-Hakim’s 1949 Play Song of Death
16:30 – 17:00 Amy McCauley (Aberystwyth) Twenty-First Century Oedipus: Looking Down Through Time
17:00 – 17:30 Christina Kapadocha (Central) ‘Belated’ or Present?: The Contemporary Actor in the Greek ‘Pastness’
17:30 Wine reception
Day 2: Wednesday 19 June
Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 11:45 Claire Kenward (Warwick) “O Hecuba! Let not thy ghost so fret”: Hecuba and the Haunting of Renaissance Humanism
11:45 - 12:15 Iarla Manny (Oxford) Oscar in Oxford: Agamemnon, Hamlet, and Salomé
12:15 – 12:45 Efstathia Athanasopoulou (UCL) Ajax as the First Cambridge Greek Play: Ancient or Modern?
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 David Bullen (Royal Holloway) Dionysus Still in 69? The Impact of the Near and Ancient Past on the 21st Century British Theatrical Reception of Euripides' Bacchae
14:30 – 15:00 Nick Geller (Michigan) (Re-)presenting Ancient Disorder: Dionysus and the Joker in Central Park
15:00 – 15:30 Olga Śmiechowicz (Jagiellonian) Aristophanes in Polish Translations in the Early Twentieth Century
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 16:30 Małgorzata Budzowska (Łódź) Postmodern Constructions of Ancient Myths in Drama and Theatre
16:30 - 17:00 Maria Konomis (Athens) The Belated Scenographic Revolution(s) in Performances of Greek Drama in Greece, 1955-2010
17:00 - 17:30 Response: Professor C.W. Marshall (British Columbia)
17:45 Book launch for Edith Hall’s Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy (OUP) and Justine McConnell’s Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (OUP)
Followed by dinner
About the Symposium
The symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic texts through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception of Greek and Roman drama. This year’s guest respondent is Professor C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia). After the second day of the symposium in Oxford, there will be a dinner and a launch celebration for two new books, Edith Hall’s Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris and Justine McConnell’s Black Odysseys.
Postgraduates from around the world 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, and theatre and performance studies. This year’s theme, ‘belatedness’ is an open-ended prompt to consider ideas about our relationship to ancient works given the abyss of time separating us from their past world (for example, different ways that the "old" is constructed - primitive, mysterious, ritualistic and yet modern etc.).
Contact for Enquiries: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk