Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

⛔️ As of January 2025, the APGRD X account is no longer active.
🦋 you can find us on Bluesky:

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📍 Find us at https://t.co/aKWaSktYSP

[ClassicalReceptions @CRSN_UK]

The new book "Medea's Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts" edited by Ana Filipa Prata and Rodrigo Verano is an engaging collection that follows Medea 'into the conflictive territories of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and visual arts.'
https://t.co/JnC6d11paa

[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

Remember you can join Monday's poetry event with Kimberly Johnson reading from her #Virgil and #Hesiod translations (plus conversation with @ae_stallings) ONLINE as well as in person. 💻Visit https://t.co/nrxakHxfBV for the Zoom link!

[Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC) @apac_ssn]

EVENT REMINDER

@APGRD will host an in-person event @hilda_beastoxf, 'The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the NT'. on 3 Feb. The event is free & inc. a talk by @wee_bookworm & Jess Richardson from @NationalTheatre.

More info & tix here: https://t.co/bnZ30Zs245

[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre
Discussions & digital content with Erin Lee Head of Archive, and Jess Richardson Head of Production & Content at the National Theatre
Free but please book
5pm Mon 3 Feb @JdP_oxford
https://t.co/xlkNbVfjw4

[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

Reminder of our first event in 2025! Reading by poet & translator Kimberly Johnson from her translations of
#Virgil and #Hesiod, followed by a conversation with Professor of Poetry, A.E. Stallings
🕑 2pm UK time
📅 20 January
📍🌐 Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles #Oxford and online

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

What does the future hold for libraries, books, and archives? Join Richard Ovenden (@bodleianlibs) & Hermione Lee (@engfac) to explore these pressing questions.
🗓 18 Feb ⏰17:30 📍Wolfson College
Free and open to all
Free registration: https://t.co/Mid1nySN1r

[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre
Discussions & digital content with Erin Lee Head of Archive, and Jess Richardson Head of Production & Content at the National Theatre
Free but please book
5pm Mon 3 Feb @JdP_oxford
https://t.co/xlkNbVfjw4

[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

Reminder of our first event in 2025! Reading by poet & translator Kimberly Johnson from her translations of
#Virgil and #Hesiod, followed by a conversation with Professor of Poetry, A.E. Stallings
🕑 2pm UK time
📅 20 January
📍🌐 Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles #Oxford and online

[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

🎄 Just before we head off for Christmas, a date for your brand new diaries!
📅📑 Mon 20 January 2pm: Reading by poet & translator Kimberly Johnson (from translations of #Virgil and #Hesiod) followed by a conversation with Professor of Poetry, @ae_stallings
📍66 St Giles' Oxford

[UCL Classical Play @UCLClassicsPlay]

Attention #ClassicsTwitter 📣new and exciting items in our #StudyGuide for #UCLClassicalPlay2025 📷and a digital exhibition on Aristophanes at UCL 😊 tickets and more here: https://t.co/LR4CDYY70m @lucyruddiman @UofGClassics @bloomstheatre @GrandLat @APGRD

[Dash Arts @DASHARTS]

We've started our journey of discovery for a new project last week - Songs of Solidarity.
Delighted to be working again with Marouf Majidi and with Maria Aberg from @ProjektEuropa who will be co-directing with our Artistic Director @josephine_dash.

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[Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama @APGRD]

Catch up on Conor Hanratty in conversation with @edithmayhall on Na Peirsigh on the APGRD's YouTube channel, where they discuss directing Aeschylus' Persians in Irish, creative influences, and the visuals and soundscape of Na Peirsigh.

https://t.co/ukQOBRCwRS

[Faculty of English @engfac]

Have you signed up to receive A.E. Stallings' #poetry newsletter yet? In each newsletter, @ae_stallings explores a contemporary poem from a new book or anthology & explains what she admires about it. #poetrylovers #poetrytwitter https://t.co/yWUcVQep6i

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🎭 Applications are now open for the summer 2025 Greek Theatre Program, run by @BADAONLINE (British American Drama Academy)! The course starts in London, visits Delphi, Nafplio & Athens, before finishing with a week with us at APGRD Oxford! Details at: https://t.co/hZNtnozmC1

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Congratulations to all the contributors to the recently published Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Zoa Alonso Fernández and Sarah Olsen. Watch the book launch on our YouTube channel, with responses from Tom Sapsford and Sue Jones.
https://t.co/810PmtDqCq

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Did you miss writer-director Alexander Zeldin in conversation with Fiona Macintosh and Laura Swift about his adaptation of Antigone, The Other Place, earlier this term at the APGRD? Catch up with the event recording, now live on our YouTube channel! https://t.co/swHfaB82bU

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This term's in-conversation with Giovanna Di Martino, Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) & Dave Carey (Chickenshed) is now live on our YouTube channel! They discuss the importance of inclusive theatre, community building & Aristophanes. https://t.co/1KoxEQWyMW via @YouTube

[Sophie McGurk @smcgurk98]

I was blown away by Conor Hanratty’s ‘Na Peirsigh’ in the Peacock last March, so it was a privilege to get an insight into the directorial decisions which led to him fusing the Irish-language tradition with the Ancient Greek so powerfully. 1/2 @AbbeyTheatre @edithmayhall

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Congratulations to our colleagues at @retags_tragedy
🇿🇦 for publishing Making/Doing/Thinking: Methods for Performance Research, an important contribution to Practice as Research scholarship.

Check out Making/Doing/Thinking, available open access: https://t.co/tOTXA2ejBX