The 17th Annual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London, Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the theory and practice of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 26 June (at the Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford) and Tuesday 27 June (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme is: ‘movement and limits in the theory and practice of ancient drama’.
All are welcome and no booking or registration is required.
About the symposium
Our annual 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. This year’s theme is a timely response to the current surge of scholarly interest in mass geopolitical movement and national boundaries, in corporeality and formal conventions. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception of Greek and Roman drama. This year’s guest respondent will be Dr Helen Slaney (Roehampton University). Among those present at this year’s symposium will be Prof. Fiona Macintosh and Prof. Oliver Taplin.
Day one of the symposium will include a dance performance by Marie-Louise Crawley (APGRD Artist in Residence) in the Ashmolean Museum, at 11am. It will conclude at 6pm with a free public lecture by Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus) on (Im)/mobility in Tom Paulin's Seize the Fire.
Day two, at RHUL, will include a lecture/demonstration by Elizabeth Schafer (RHUL) of Jane Lumley’s Iphigenia at Aulis (1557) and a discussion between Emma Cox (RHUL) and Fiona Macintosh on processional movement.
Contact for enquiries: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Programme
Day 1: Monday 26 June
Ioannou Centre, 66 St. Giles, Oxford
10.30-11.00 Registration, coffee and welcome from Prof. Fiona Macintosh followed by walk to Ashmolean Museum (next door to Ioannou Centre)
11.00-11.45 Moving in museum spaces
Marie-Louise Crawley (APGRD Artist in Residence): ‘What remains? Dancing the Metamorphoses’
11.45-12.10 walk back to Ioannou Centre and Coffee Break
12.10-1.00 Dancing across boundaries
Sam Agbamu (KCL): Dangerous Dancing: Pantomime and the Politics of the Performative
Haritini Tsikoura (Nanterre): Transcending limits with movement: Mathilde Monnier’s Pour Antigone
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.50 Setting boundaries
Andria Michael (Royal Holloway): National Boundaries Set, Broken, and restored: Antigone from the Greek National Theatre in 1940 and 1956
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford): Movement and limits in Vittorio Alfieri’s ‘reformed’ tragic theatre
2.50-4.20 Crossing boundaries
Robert Emil Berge (NTNU): Aristophanes’ Frogs Dancing in the Dark: A Case for an Evening Performance
Alyssa Hubbard (Oxford): Choral Movement in Euripides’ Medea
Vasileia Kouliouri (Bristol): Movement and Limits in the ‘Cassandra Scene’ of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
4.25 Tea
5.00-5.30 Translating across boundaries
Francesco Morosi, Francesco Cannizzaro, Stefano Fanucchi, Leyla Ozbek (Pisa): Movements across languages: Translating Sophocles for the Italian Stage
6.00-6.30 Guest lecture by Visiting Lecturer: Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University): (Im)/mobility in Tom Paulin’s Seize the Fire
6.30-7.00 Drinks
7.00 Informal supper in the Common Room
Day 2: Tuesday 27 June
Caryl Churchill Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London
10.45-11.00 Registration, coffee and welcome from Prof. Elizabeth Schafer (RHUL)
11.00-12.30 Moving gender
Sean Kelly (Oxford): Movement and the Representation of Difference in Euripides’ Bacchae: The 2017 Oxford Greek Play
David Bullen (Royal Holloway) with SJ Brady and Wendy Haines (By Jove Theatre Company): From City to Mountain: Locating and (Re)making Feminist Acts in By Jove's Bacchae Plays
Oliver Smith (KCL): Iphigenia reborn as a rave fable
12.30-1.10 Lunch
1.15-2.00 Elizabeth Schafer (RHUL) and Dr Rebecca McCutcheon (RHUL, theatre director): work-in-progress performance: Public Sacrifice, Private Trauma: Conflicting Domains in Jane Lumley's Iphigenia at Aulis
2.15-3.30 Modern moves
Mariam Kaladze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University): Experiment in the Ancient Genre of Mennipea - “Antigone” in Georgian Stage
Sylvia Solakidi (Surrey): The Wisdom of the Body: Moving towards a Cathartic Encounter with ancient Greek Myths in Jan Fabre’s Mount Olympus – to Glorify the Cult of Tragedy (2015)
Clara Daniel (Aix-Marseille University): Plautus in Modern Adaptations: Re-Democratizing Popular Classical Comedies
3.30-4.00 Tea
4.00-4.30 Dr Emma Cox (RHUL) and Fiona Macintosh (Oxford): Processional movement: a critical dialogue
4.30-5.30 Plenary: Response from Dr Helen Slaney
5.30-6.30 Drinks in Rehearsal Room B