Ancient Greek and Roman Drama - theatre history and modern performance

Oxford University

Podcasts of the lectures and in-conversation events with acclaimed actors, directors, playwrights, and academics, on modern and historic performances inspired by ancient Greek and Roman texts - hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. For upcoming public events please visit the APGRD website.

  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945)
    Alena Sarkissian gives public lecture, subtitled 'Theatre as a space of Spiritual Contemplation', on Greek Tragedy in the Czech Republic under Nazi Occupation.
    12 February 2021, 11:54 am
  • 39 minutes 5 seconds
    APGRD/TORCH panel discussion of 'We Are Not Princesses'
    Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Hal Scardino (producer) and Fiona Macintosh (APGRD) discuss We Are Not Princesses, a documentary about Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut telling their stories through the ancient Greek play, Antigone.
    18 June 2019, 12:35 pm
  • 54 minutes 17 seconds
    'The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose': Edith Wharton and the Classics
    The annual Classics & English lecture given in May 2019: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths) discusses Edith Wharton and the Classics.
    3 June 2019, 1:31 pm
  • 54 minutes 44 seconds
    Homer and the Discovery of the Pacific
    An APGRD public lecture given in May 2019: Henry Power (Exeter) discusses Homeric resonances in the work of Alexander Pope, John Keats, and Thom Gunn.
    21 May 2019, 10:08 am
  • 46 minutes 2 seconds
    Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
    Melinda Powers (CUNY) discusses modern American adaptations of Greek tragedy.
    10 April 2019, 1:41 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    The Dancer and the Ubermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance
    An APGRD / DANSOX public lecture given in February 2019: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh) discusses the work of Isadora Duncan and Edward Gordon Craig.
    25 March 2019, 10:17 am
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    Classics and Social Justice
    An APGRD public lecture in October 2017: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) tells us about her work bringing Classics into prisons.
    20 March 2019, 12:09 pm
  • 52 minutes 6 seconds
    The Politics of Greece's Theatrical Revolution, ca. 500 - ca. 300 BCE
    An APGRD public lecture given in April 2018: Peter Wilson (Sydney) discusses the relationship between Greek theatre and politics.
    20 March 2019, 12:04 pm
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    Gestures and Postures: the construction and reception of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé
    An APGRD / DANSOX public seminar given in November 2018: Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) discusses Noverre's use of gesture and the tragic.
    20 March 2019, 12:00 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Tragedy's Endurance
    An APGRD public lecture from March 2018: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin) speaks on the subject of her recent book, Tragedy's Endurance.
    19 March 2019, 11:50 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Josephine Balmer: A Reading
    Poet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons. This reading is followed by a discussion with Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift, and Oliver Taplin.
    13 March 2019, 2:21 pm
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