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Sophocles

Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

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.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
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Choreographing Sophocles

A podcast episode with Leo Aylen and David Wiles
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
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Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire

Naomi Weiss delivers a public lecture on Kamila Shamsie's award-winning novel, Home Fire
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies

TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

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.
Faculty of Classics

The Gaisford Lecture 2016: Transmitting Tragedy

The Gaisford Lecture 2016: Transmitting Tragedy, delivered by Patrick Finglass
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Playwright Frank McGuinness in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

Acclaimed playwright Frank McGuinness talks with Fiona Macintosh about his work adapting Greek tragedies for modern theatre, particularly Antigone and Medea.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Director Ian Rickson on Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic (2014)

Director Ian Rickson talks about his 2014 production of Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic, London, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Electra
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Shaped by the Classics?

Tania Demetriou on the non-existent classical epyllion; Helen Slaney on dilettante comparatists; Henriette Korthals Altes on dance and text; John McKeane on Sophocles, Holderlin and Lacoue-Labarthe.
What is Tragedy?

Defining Tragedy

First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy' means, from its origins in Greek culture to philosophical notions of what tragedy and tragic drama are.
Faculty of Classics

Reception of Classical Literature in the 20th Century

Dr Fiona Macintosh gives a lecture on the classical literature and its reception in the 20th Century. In particular, the Odyssey, the Medea and Oedipus Rex. Part of the OxBridge Classics Conference for Schools.

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