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Keble College

The Keble Debates: Drama

The first of the Keble Debates bringings together leading figures from the world of theatre to explore contemporary issues in the arts and the way the arts engage with contemporary issues in wider society.
Approaching Shakespeare
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Henry VI, Part 2

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2.
Mansfield College

Dame Maggie Smith in Conversation

Dame Maggie Smith and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC in conversation
Approaching Shakespeare
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All's Well That Ends Well

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Professing

Sir Tom Stoppard delivers the Cameron Mackintosh Inaugural lecture 2017
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Storming Utopia

The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Director Wayne Jordan discusses Oedipus (Abbey Theatre 2015)

The Abbey Theatre's artistic director Wayne Jordan talks to Professor Fiona Macintosh, about his acclaimed 2015 production of Sophocles' Oedipus.
Staging History, 1780 to 1840

Staging History: favourite objects and concluding thoughts

The series concludes with each of the contributors discussing an object that particularly stands out for them from the exhibition items and what it reveals about staging history in this period.
Staging History, 1780 to 1840

History on stage

In this episode, the contributors discuss why history so frequently featured on stage in this period, and the significance of the historical events that these dramas staged for contemporary audiences.
Staging History, 1780 to 1840

Experiencing the late Georgian theatre

This episode explores what it was like to experience theatre in this era, including how theatres were laid out and designed, what it was like to be in the audience, and how plays were written, advertised and staged.
Staging History, 1780 to 1840

Theatre in the ‘Long Regency’ era

This episode gives a brief introduction to the history of this period, beginning with the American War of Independence and culminating in the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria.
Shakespeare and the Brain

Extracts from Shakespeare, read by Roland Oliver (actor): Richard II Act V, Scene 5; Macbeth Act II, Scene 1; Henry IV Part 2, Act IV, Scene 3

Roland (an actor and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) concludes the ‘Shakespeare and the Brain’ event by reading relevant extracts from three of Shakespeare’s plays.
Shakespeare and the Brain

The Hunter Heartbeat Method – Kelly Hunter (actor, director and educator)

Kelly gives an outline of some of her work using sensory drama games, using Shakespeare’s works, to interact and play with children with autism.
In Our Spare Times

Clytemenstra

Host Alice Harberd discusses Clytemnestra, a fascinating character from Greek Tragedy, with Emily Clifford and Lily Aaronovitch.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Creation and Immigration

Claude-Michel Schönberg delivers his inaugural lecture as the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Shakespeare and the Victorians

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series.
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 Jonathan Kent in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

Theatre director Jonathan Kent discusses his work with Greek tragedies, including Medea with Diana Rigg in 1992-1994; Hecuba with Clare Higgins in 2004; and Oedipus with Ralph Fiennes in 2008 at the National Theatre.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

The Oresteia at the Globe Theatre (2015)

Director, Adele Thomas, and playwright / translator, Rory Mullarkey, talk about their production of Aeschylus' Oresteia at the Globe Theatre, London in 2015
Medea, a performance history: APGRD eBooks

Medea, a performance history (ebook)

A free to download, interactive/multimedia ebook by the APGRD, on the production history of Euripides' tragedy Medea

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