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Production photograph of Brie Larson centre stage as Elektra, with a floor-length fur coat slung over one should and a microphone in the other hand, she has a shaved head and is wearing a yellow punk-style t-shirt.
Elektra: Daniel Fish in conversation with Helene Foley
A prerecorded interview with director Daniel Fish, discussing his 2025 adaptation of Elektra
Daniel Fish (Director)
APGRD YouTube
The back of a limbless classical sculpture that has been graffitied, against a dark background
Greek tragedy between stage and screen: Orestes (2021)
Film seminar: screening and discussion
Marcus Bell and other members of the creative team
JdP, St Hilda's College
Three actors can be made out in the background but are out of focus, in the foreground is a camera filming them.
The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre
Talk accompanied by digital content and followed by discussion
Erin Lee, 
Jess Richardson
JdP, St Hilda's College
A black and white photograph of Kimberly Johnson
Labor Omnia Vincit: The Pleasures and Perplexities of Didactic Poetry & Verse Translation
A reading by poet & translator Kimberly Johnson followed by a conversation with Professor of Poetry, A.E. Stallings.
Kimberly Johnson, 
A.E. Stallings
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
The poster for Songs of Solidarity, with the title in white font, in front of an image of portraits.
Songs of Solidarity
An interdisciplinary project working with refugees to co-create a new epic
St Hilda's College
A photograph from a performance of Na Peirsigh, showing actors gathered around a table full of candles, looking upwards.
Na Peirsigh: Conor Hanratty in conversation
Conor Hanratty talks to Edith Hall about directing the Irish-language version of Aeschylus' Persians
Conor Hanratty
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
The cover of Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome, written in purple font against a sepia image of a man drawing a ruin in front of the Colosseum.
Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome
An online celebration of a new volume exploring the traces of ancient Greek and Roman dance
Zoa Alonso Fernández, 
Sarah Olsen, 
Sue Jones, 
Tom Sapsford
Zoom
A photo from rehearsals for The Other Place, showing Emma D'Arcy (Annie) and Alexander Zeldin (director) examining a script.
The Other Place: Alexander Zeldin in conversation
Alexander Zeldin discusses his new version of Sophocles' Antigone
Alexander Zeldin
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Students of Chickenshed performing The Toy Makers Child, in brightly coloured costumes.
Inclusive Theatre and Community-Building: Dave Carey and Marco Martinelli
Creative producer Dave Carey and theatre director Marco Martinelli in conversation with Giovanna Di Martino
Marco Martinelli, 
Dave Carey
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Student participants at a workshop in Chickenshed studio theatre
Aristophanes at Chickenshed
A five-day workshop on Aristophanes’ Peace by University of Bristol, UCL, and University of Parma
Chickenshed Theatre, London
A photo from a performance of Sophocles' Trackers, Patroklos Skafidas.
Voicing Unacoustics in Sophocles’ Ichneutai
Public lecture
Konstantinos Thomaidis
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
A sixteenth century emblem of Hecuba, depicting a figure holding a mask up to their face
Plots and Painted Tyrants: Performing Hecuba in the sixteenth century
The ninth annual Classics and English lecture
Carla Suthren
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
The cover of Mapping Medea.
Book Launch: Mapping Medea
Book launch
Kate Tunstall, 
Miranda Stanyon, 
Anna Albrektson, 
Fiona Macintosh
Online
An image of two comic figures, styled after a Greek vase painting.
The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art
Public lecture
Alexa Piqueux
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
A cropped photo showing the prop of a boat from the Odyssey, with a blue overlay.
NT's Odyssey: Emily Lim in conversation with Lucy Jackson
The director of the National Theatre's Odyssey discusses her stage adaptation of the epic.
Emily Lim, 
Lucky Jackson
Online
photograph of Phia Ménard’s play Mother House depicting a broken cardboard structure in the foreground, with smoke or dust falling from above the structure, and a figure seated on the floor in the background
Creative Precarities: Performing Ruins in the 21st century
Public lecture
Ezra Baudou
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Photograph of two Plaster replicas of the Knossos ‘snake goddesses’ in the Ashmolean Museum
Finding the Snake Goddess: new poems by Ruth Padel
Public lecture/performance
Ellen Adams, 
Nicoletta Momigliano, 
Christine Morris, 
Andrew Shapland
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
An aulos player on a red-figure Attic kylix.
Performance in Antiquity
Public lecture
Sophie Bocksberger, 
Sarah Cullinan-Herring
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre