Reconstructing & Adapting Fragmentary Ancient Greek Tragedy: Methodologies & Challenges for Classicists and Theatre Practitioners

Experts from Classics, English and Drama as well as playwrights and theatremakers will discuss their own take on the lost plays, producing an engaging and informative workshop addressed at colleagues, students, theatre artists and members of the public interested in the undiscovered dramas of Greek civilisation.

The speakers will explore past and current trends in the reconstruction of lost Greek tragedies and will look at the creative and interdisciplinary potential of reimagining these plays; each of them will showcase their methodology on the plays they chose to reconstruct and the benefits and practicalities of their approach.

Torrington Room (104), Senate House, University of London

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PROGRAMME

11.00-11.15 Registration

11.15-11.30 Andriana Domouzi

Short Introduction to the study of Fragmentary Greek tragedies and their Reception

11.30-12.00 Timberlake Wertenbaker (playwright, screenplay writer & translator):

The Love of the Nightingale inspired by Sophocles’ Tereus

12.00-12.30 Adam Roberts (science fiction writer & Prof. of 19^th century Literature, Royal Holloway):

Euripides’ Phaethon, Telephus and Hypsipyle

12.30-13.00 Q&A

13.00-14.00 Lunch Break (own arrangements; coffee/tea & snacks provided)

14.00-14.30 Leta Koutsohera (poet, playwright & painter) &

Lily Karadima (artistic director of theatre & dance company ‘Atrapos’):

Euripides’ Cretans

14.30-15.00 David Stuttard (writer, theatre director, dramaturg & classical scholar):

Euripides’ Alexandros, Palamedes and Sisyphus

15.00-15.15 Q&A

15.15-15.30 Break

15.30-16.10 Colin Teevan (playwright, translator & Prof. of Playwriting and Screenwriting, Birkbeck) &

Martin Wylde (theatre director & Lecturer in Acting, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama):

Euripides’ Alcmaeon in Corinth (first performed as Cock of the North)

16.10-16.30 Q&A and Closing Remarks