1121868, On Tuesday 21st January, Year Eight Latinists were treated to a special workshop on ancient Greek theatre by Georgina Dettmer and Maya Little, students from the University of Oxford who have been working on the forthcoming Oxford Playhouse performance of “Shadows of Troy”,  a new adaptation of Sophocles’.

A full schedule and further information are available online at https://opencuny.org/classicsconference2020/. Ticket Office : Monday to Saturday 10am - 7pm on performance days (10am - 5pm on non-performance days) Please note we open at 10.30am on Wednesdays. It will require superb organisational skills. A battle of military honour and filial devotion follows, leaving Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra ravaged by doubt and guilt.
Music, including a violin played onstage, along with percussion and the rhythmic chanting of the chorus, plays an integral role in the production, from the opening scene where the jarring, eerie orchestral music sets the tone for the wildness and madness of the maenads throughout the play. Ticket Office: To make bookings, Enjoy memberships, lost property & mailing list (Tel) 01865 305 305. Please make sure that these are in sufficient detail. Now, it has settled into a regular rhythm of triennial performances, and the next is due in Michaelmas Term, 2017.

Bacchae, directed by Sean Kelly, is a production charged with the wild frenzy of the maenads, the mad female followers of Dionysus.

The Director should demonstrate artistic and organisational ability, as well as previous theatrical experience. Don Chapman has also provided a comprehensive study of the theatre in his 2008 book, Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City. The latest play, The Furies, ran for 7 performances (Wednesday-Saturday) at the Oxford Playhouse, one of Oxford largest theatres, and its total audience numbered almost 3,000. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.

Applications to the Committee are due before 11.59 p.m. on 8th November 2016. As the Committee is appointed annually and the Greek Play is triennial, this leaves considerable opportunity for funding other Classical drama in Oxford. The students acted some of the parts. These appointments will become effective in January 2021. Yet, this play is also about a blurring of boundaries, and Spencer Klavan’s captivating performance suggests there is something not wholly civilised about Pentheus, particularly when his seething disregard for Dionysus is shown. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The Oxford Greek Play 2017: Advert for a Director and Producer Born in the late Nineteenth Century, after Benjamin Jowett put on the Agamemnon in Balliol's Hall, the Oxford Greek Play is one of the University's longest-standing traditions. Lionel Pearson Fellowship deadline is coming up! Born in the late Nineteenth Century, after Benjamin Jowett put on the Agamemnon in Balliol's Hall, the Oxford Greek Play is one of the University's longest-standing traditions. Oxford Playhouse is a theatre for everyone. With your fellow players, solve puzzles, visit strange worlds, and grapple with what it means to get out of our bedrooms right now.

The Oxford Greek Play is steeped in tradition, occurring every three years at the Oxford Playhouse, and yet for […] Oxford Playhouse Last updated December 27, 2019. A new translation presents these plays in tandem, creating a truly epic narrative of the most famous war in Western history. ( Log Out /  B. Fagan.
Rest of HT: Auditions for cast; recruitment of further production team members The AAIA, CCANESA, AWAWS, CCWM and the University of Sydney Departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History warmly invite abstracts for our forthcoming conference on the reception of ancient women, to be held over 5-6 March 2021, ahead of International Women's Day, 8 March 2021. Email: boxoffice@oxfordplayhouse.com Stage Door: 01865 305 301, Oxford Playhouse is a registered Arts Award Supporter. Presenting a play entirely in Greek to a modern audience might seem like an extraordinary task, but through the interplay of choreography, music, and outstanding individual performances, this production of Euripides’ Bacchae carries it off effortlessly.

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( Log Out /  On its first night the cast went for a celebratory Italian meal and found the restaurant packed with London critics who ate and drank with us and promised us rave reviews.

Georgina and Maya then told the group the story behind the two plays, which was Agamemnon, commander of the Greek army, sacrificing his own daughter, Iphigenia, in order to gaina  favourable wind so the army could sail to Troy to begin the Trojan War. The Playhouse was founded as The Red Barn at 12 Woodstock Road, North Oxford, in 1923 by J.

Beaumont Street, Oxford, UK, OX1 2LW Registered Company No.2397373 Registered Charity No.900039 VAT No.282538973 The OGP always attracts very large audiences, drawing students, academics, and schoolchildren from a wide area. For those interested in witnessing the capabilities of storytelling in theatre, this play is not to be missed. Why do we undervalue junior academics by paying them so little?

Want to contribute? Don Chapman has also provided a comprehensive study of the theatre in his 2008 book, Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City. Shadows of Troy, Oxford Playhouse Posted by Jill Dye Oxford student company Stupid and Brave Productions banish the Battle of Troy to the interval by combining two classical Greek plays, Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis in the first half and Sophocles’ …

mother! Application forms and materials are due November 6. Prior residencies have run between four and sixteen weeks. They would sing and dance in unison, which would be very striking. tickets available for Wed 12 Feb, Thu 13 Feb at 2.30pm or 7.30pm from 1 Feb. Multi award-winning Musical Youth Company of Oxford (MYCO) return to Oxford Playhouse with their stylish reimagining of the hit musical Chess.

Hey Diddle Diddle is a sing-along and play session for pre-school children and their... Beaumont Street, Oxford, UK, OX1 2LW Registered Company No.2397373 Registered Charity No.900039 VAT No.282538973, Box Office: 01865 305 305Mon - Thu 10am - 6pm Fri 10am - 5pm Click Here for further info on opening times.

initiative, launched by the SCS in 2019, supports projects that seek to engage communities worldwide with the study of Greek and Roman antiquity in new and meaningful ways. The writhing, animalistic and interconnected choreography of the chorus establishes the idea of a community in opposition with the hardened exterior of the individual, Pentheus. Fellowship timing and duration depend on individual fellow needs and project scopes. Finally, the group was split into two, and each smaller group was given part of a Greek chorus from Shadows of Troy to perform. Military tension erupts into familial agony when a seer declares that Agamemnon’s daughter Iphigenia must be sacrificed before the army can depart. Before Christmas: Interviews with OUCDS Committee and final selection Shadows of Troy is a bold new adaptation of two giants of ancient theatre - Sophocles’ Ajax, and Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis.A new translation presents these plays in tandem, creating a truly epic narrative of the most famous war in Western history. Google says that the Oxford Playhouse gave Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis and The Birds, all in Greek, in 2002 and 2004, and that Aberdeen gives Greek plays.

The Classics Everywhere initiative, launched by the SCS in 2019, supports projects that seek to engage communities worldwide with the study of Greek and Roman antiquity in new and meaningful ways.

The Play has in recent years been a production of a single ancient play, though there have been double bills in the past. Summer vac: Production team (and cast!) In partnership with KEEN Oxford, our inclusive online drama workshops return for the Autumn Term on Wednesdays at 5pm on Zoom.

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