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Metamorphoses

October 6, 2018

It’s the mark of a classic that it’s never out-dated. Many of the most exciting artists and writers working today are taking their inspiration from stories, concepts and forms now thousands of years old. This festival celebrates the legacy of the ancient Greeks and Romans by connecting it with innovative work being created today.

A stellar array of architects, artists, poets, novelists, theatre-makers, performers and critical thinkers will be appearing across two stages in the Great Hall of Inigo Jones’s Queen’s House – the earliest classical building in Britain – and the adjacent Old Royal Naval College, which includes work by Christopher Wren, John Vanburgh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. They’ll use music, visual arts and the spoken word to demonstrate how creatively the ancients shape our modern world.

 

Queen’s House Stage

10.30

Cleopatra – Lucy Hughes-Hallett

11:25

Antigone – Blake Morrison

12:20

Dionysus – Robin Robertson and Sue Prideaux

14:00

Aristotle – Edith Hall

14:50

Achilles – Rosemary Hill and Rough Haired Pointer presenting Christopher Logue; Michael Hughes

15:40

Medea – Robin Robertson, David Vann, Ben Morgan with Rough Haired Pointer, chaired by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

16:30

Orpheus – Ann Wroe

17.25

Cassandra – Marina Warner


Old Royal Naval College Stage

11.25

Why Classicism is a Dead Style – Alexander Stoddart

12.20-13.00

Elemental Classicism: Learning From Lutyens – Craig Hamilton

14.00-14.40

The Vulgar – Judith Clark

14.50-15.30

Classicism & Power – Pablo Bronstein, Ioana Marinescu & Oliver Wainwright

15.40-16.20

The Life of Bramante – Pier Paolo Tamburelli

16.30-17.10

Myth and Modernity – Joseph Rykwert in conversation with Patrick Lynch

Organizer

Architecture Foundation

Venue

Greenwich
London, United Kingdom + Google Map

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