Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

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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.

  1. 09/26/2024

    Antigone through a digital lens, with Creation Theatre

    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 tickets see: https://creationtheatre.co.uk/show/antigone/

    45 min

  2. 04/23/2024

    Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe: Italy and Community Theatre

    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.

    44 min

  3. 06/05/2023

    Choreographing Sophocles

    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 University of Exeter, who himself has translated and directed several Greek plays. Their key question: how much do we know about Sophocles' choreography, and what do we do with this knowledge today?

    41 min

  4. 07/06/2022

    Queering the Past(s)

    A podcast episode with Nancy Rabinowitz, Marcus Bell, and Eleonora Colli ‘Queering the Past(s)’ is a new interactive online resource supported by The Classical Association, which has been developed by a team of teachers and scholars to address an important gap in school education on LGBTQ+ subjects and to use information from antiquity to help students gain confidence in addressing modern critical (and contentious) issues.

    32 min

  5. 06/01/2022

    The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated People

    A podcast episode with Nancy Rabinowitz, Rhodessa Jones, and Angela Wilson Rhodessa Jones is a theatre practitioner and artistic director, and founded The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle in 1989. Nancy Rabinowitz is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, and has worked extensively on the impact of Greek theatre in prisons, and co-edited Classics and Prison Education in the US (2021). Angela Wilson is a formerly incarcerated mother, writer, actress, teacher, activist, and a core member of the Medea Project. The three discuss the Medea Project's origins, latest residency, and their engagement with myth as a ritual of resilience.

    43 min

  6. 01/05/2022

    Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South

    A podcast episode with Mark Fleishman and Mandla Mbothwe Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South (ReTAGS) is a project led by Mark Fleishman and Mandla Mbothwe. In this episode, Mark and Mandla discuss the project's aims, reimagining the concept of tragedy from a perspective in Africa that is directed at the complex challenges of our global postcolonial present and towards our possible futures both inside and outside of the discipline.

    40 min

  7. 08/20/2021

    Queer Andromeda

    A podcast with Hannah Greenstreet and Charlotte Vickers Hannah Greenstreet and Charlotte Vickers are, respectively, the writer and director of the TORCH-funded project Andromeda - a queer retelling of Euripides' lost play. Recorded ahead of a full production at Camden People's Theatre, Hannah and Charlotte discuss the project, its process, and the importance of centring queer experience in storytelling. Introduced by Giovanna Di Martino, and produced by Giovanna Di Martino and Claire Barnes. Recorded in July 2021.

    31 min

  8. 08/20/2021

    A Bread Factory

    A podcast with Patrick Wang and Michael Lippman. Writer and director Patrick Wang is interviewed by Michael Lippman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), about his 2018 two-part film, A Bread Factory. Telling the story of a community arts centre and the individuals whose lives are intertwined with it, A Bread Factory incorporates scenes and motifs from Greek tragedy as the art centre puts on a performance of Euripides' Hecuba. Introduced by Claire Barnes, and produced by Giovanna Di Martino and Claire Barnes. Recorded in June 2021.

    43 min
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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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