Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

Sep 26 2024 16 ep. 39 mins 290
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A podcast by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. In each episode, the APGRD invites creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, actors, choreographers etc. - and/or academics to talk to us about their research, archival discoveries, and creative practices.

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Antigone through a digital lens, with Creation Theatre

Sep 26 2024 45 mins  
Creation Theatre's Artistic Director Dr Helen Eastman talks about digital theatre, Creation's award-winning approach to digital work, and how they have used it both to interpret and to intervene in Sophocles' ancient tragedy. Creation Theatre's digital production of Antigone premiered in May 2024 and is being revived 26-28 September and 21-23 November 2024. For information and tick

Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe: Italy and Community Theatre

Apr 23 2024 44 mins  
A podcast episode with Marco Martinelli Playwright and theatre director Marco Martinelli (co-founder of Teatro delle Albe) discusses his community-theatre projects, past and future, in Italy, France, and London, involving amateur actors, school children, and young adults, using Aristophanes, Dante, and Cervantes. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: Engla

Choreographing Sophocles

Jun 05 2023 41 mins  
A podcast episode with Leo Aylen and David Wiles Leo Aylen, a poet, author, actor, director, broadcaster, and screenwriter, has engaged significantly with classical material over the course of his career. In this podcast episode, he discusses his sell-out production of 'Antigone' at the Greenwich Theatre. His interlocutor is David Wiles, Emeritus Professor of Drama at the Universit

Sicily and Ancient Greek Theatre

Dec 09 2020 38 mins  
A podcast episode with Oliver Taplin and Giovanna Di Martino This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor Oxford) and Dr Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) to discuss Sicily's privileged relationship with ancient Greek drama. They take as their starting point images relating to the 1914 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the

East and West in Ancient Drama

Dec 09 2020 46 mins  
A podcast with Michael Scott and Marchella Ward This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Michael Scott (Warwick) and Dr Marchella Ward (Oxford), to discuss the problematic idea of 'Western Civilisation' and how this plays out when looking at modern productions of ancient dramas set or staged in contexts understood as 'Eastern'. Introduced by Claire

Ancient Theatre Around the Black Sea

Dec 09 2020 35 mins  
A podcast with Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles This episode of Staging the Archive invited APGRD co-founder Professor Edith Hall (KCL) and Dr Rosie Wyles (Kent) to discuss their latest publication: Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea (co-written with Professor David Braund). Introduced by Claire Barnes; recorded in July 2020.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online

Dec 09 2020 38 mins  
A podcast with Paul O'Mahony, Joel Christensen, and Lanah Koelle This episode of Staging the Archive brought together the artistic director (Paul O'Mahony), host (Joel Christensen), and executive producer (Lanah Koelle) of the Reading Greek Tragedy Online series - an ongoing project that began during the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown. With over 60 actors and researchers from

Medea - A Mirror for the 21st Century

Dec 09 2020 42 mins  
Avery Willis Hoffman, Fran Amewudah and Shivaike Shah talk about the BAME Medea project In this episode of Staging the Archive, Dr Avery Willis Hoffman (artistic director at Brown Arts Initiative) interviews Oxford alumni Shivaike Shah and Fran Amewudah about their latest project: reinventing and reimagining their successful all-BAME cast student-production of Medea in 2018. Introd

Classics in Communities

Jan 17 2021 38 mins  
A podcast with Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Mai Musié. This episode brings together Dr Mai Musié and Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson from Classics in Communities, a project combining training and research to promote the teaching of Classical subjects in UK state schools. Arlene and Mai discuss the project's recent publication: Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and C

University Classical Plays

Jan 17 2021 33 mins  
Representatives from University College London and Oxford University discuss their respective classical plays, a rich university tradition for each which has been forced to adapt significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Guest presenter David Bullen (a theatre producer working on the King's College London play since 2015), interviews: Lewis Bentley, Elena Bashkova, and Zoë De Ba