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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · 1d

We would like to pay tribute to Tony Harrison, not only for his landmark adaptations of Greek drama but also for being so supportive of the APGRD’s formation and research endeavours; many of our archive’s highlights are indebted to his work - a colleague and friend to many of us over the years 💛

Photograph of a rehearsal script of the Oresteia, by Tony Harrison, an APGRD archive item once belonging to Oliver Taplin (academic consultant on Peter Hall’s National Theatre production of 1981).

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 3d

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.

Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU

Deadline 16 Jan.

The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · 18d

Exciting news! Our friends at the National Theatre bring a new, interactive free exhibition: "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention". Journeying through past reimaginings of Greek tragedies & featuring archival objects. Not to be missed!
#nationaltheatre #thegreeks #greektragedy #reception #performance

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a young man standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a bald man's back, standing in front of a panel with information and pictures.

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing the back a young woman, standing in front of a panel with information and pictures.

Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing the back of a young woman standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎉🎉New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing “Greek”: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing.
#clothing #performance #classics #reception

Image of a drawing of an ancient dancer, dark hair and light clothing. She is waving her hands up and jumping on one foot. The backfroung is mustard colour.

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · 25d

Our friends at Thiasos Theatre are performing two comedic plays at The Cockpit Theatre, London, 16th to 20th September: Euripides' Cyclops and Aristophanes' Clouds. Not to be missed!!
#euripides #cyclops #aristophanes #clouds #ancientdrama

Picture of a poster that says Aristophanes' Clouds. Thiasos Theatre company. At the Cockpit, 16th-20th Sep. There is an image of three women dressed in ancient Greek gowns with clouds for heads.

Picture of a poster that says Euripides' Cyclops. Thiasos Theatre company. At the Cockpit, 16th-20th Sep. There is an image of the head of a statue of a cyclops and drawings of three satyrs on different positions.

Picture of an ancient Greek theatre with five actors dressed as satyrs and on the background the sky with the torsos and heads of four actresses dressed as clouds. On top of the picture it says Thiasos Theatre

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎉🎉New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing “Greek”: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing.
#clothing #performance #classics #reception

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Aug 11

An extremely interesting event coming up soon, organised by our friends at BCLA: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality
British Academy / British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) St John’s College, Oxford. 11–12 Sept 2025. To book (free) go to:
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Screen shot of webpage https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/comparative-literature-and-decoloniality/

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Aug 9

⚠️📡 This sounds like we also need to improve our Hypsipyle detection radar! If anyone knows of Hypsipyles or Hypsipyle-inspired performances - anytime since 1315 CE, any country, drama, dance, radio, tv, film etc. - let us know at: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/apg... (we accept Medeas too 💛)

Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Instead of putting on Euripides' Medea for the 1190th time, maybe we should have some versions of Euripides' Hypsipyle, for a change. Only 5 productions listed in the @apgrd.bsky.social database, and none in the last 20 years. It's clearly due a revival!

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Did anyone said "birds"? Costume design, music score and some performance pictures of Aristophanes' Birds and other comedies. Beautiful findings in our Aristophanes' drawer...
#aristophanes #classics #reception #birds #performance

image of coloured photographs with images of a performance of a Classical Greek comedy

Image of a musical score of Aristophabnes' birds

Image of a drawing showing two men wearing some feathers on their backs and arms, a costume design for a classical comedy

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎉🎉If you missed the launch of this fascinating, thought provoking issue, 'What Makes an American “Classic”?' co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes, the recording is now online! Head to the APGRD Website to watch the video, or go to our YouTube channel.
#reception #classics #american

Screenshot of a YouTube video showing 12 people in a zoom meeting

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 28

It feels strange to see our walls so bare... but we are bringing in some changes over the summer! Blue lady is down 😢... and a little birdie is flying in...
#poster #exhibition #birds #classics

Image of a staircase and a corridor with empty walls, a Greek classical statue of Athena on the right and an open door leading to a corridor on the left.

Image of a room with shelves with books in the background some stacked chairs and a couple of framed posters leaning on them, one of Mucha Medea, and one with an image of a blue lady's naked upper body

Image of a hand holding some posters in plastic sheets, showing one with a drawing of the head of a blue bird and some Greek writing

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎉🎉 If you missed it, Dr Emily Pillinger's fascinating contribution to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception is now online, accessible to all. Go to the APGRD website or our YouTube channel to watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzb...

Image of a laptop opened on top of a table, with a bookcase in the background. There is an open notebook on it, with a pen. On the laptop screen there is a video that says "Ecologies and Futures"

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happily rummaging through the APGRD's video recording collection. So many interesting little gems there! And behold! Another bird (or birds) in the Archive...
#birds #archive #greektragedy #video #drama

Image of a table with rows of video tape cases and a cardboard box on the left bottom front corner and bookshelves at the back

Image of a table with rows of video tape cases and a cardboard box on the left top corner and bookshelves at the back

Image of some video tape cases and one in the centre open, showing a masked actor in Ancient Greek robes, with the writing ‘Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex’, then a video tape with a label saying ‘Corinth video. Oedipus Rex’

Image of a poster with drawings of birds and the back of a person disguised as a bird, with the writing ‘Aristophanes’ The Birds. A new Translation by the Harvard Classical Classical Club’

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 10

📕🚀ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH!!! Don't miss our next event, Monday 14 July 5pm (UK time) ONLINE book launch, 'What makes an American Classic?', an invitation from co-editors Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes.For the Zoom link to join us, please go to the APGRD website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

image of diary, book and text that says "SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE ONLINE LAUNCH MONDAY JULY 14TH, 5PM (UK TIME) RESPONDENTS Wiebke Denecke Glenn W. Most Tessa Roynon & contributors WHAT MAKES AN AMERICAN CLASSIC? I Am an American WHAT EVERY CITIZEN SHOULD KNOW An invitation from co-editors Dr Caterina Domeneghini and Claire BarnesNEW AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL"

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Jul 9

What Makes an American “Classic”? Monday July 14 5pm UK Time= 12pm, EST @apgrd.bsky.social www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... Celebrates the publication of New American Studies Journal vol. 76 (2025) What Makes an American “Classic”? edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 8

Exciting events coming up from our friends at DANSOX. Thursday 24 July, SHOBANA JEYASINGH in residence at the Jacqueline du Pré Building 21st-25th July, We Caliban, an inventive, sideways look at Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
For more details, head to: dansox3.wordpress.com/upcoming-eve...

An image of two dancers and text that says "Thursday 24th 24thJuly July 2025 at 5.30pm followed by Q&A & reception Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda' College, Oxford Book on Eventbrite or contact susan,jones@ell.ox.ac.uk"

APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 8

Kindly donated by Bill Zewadski, this little gem holds pictures of an 1887 production of Antigone in Zurich, collected as a memento of the performance for/by (?) Prof Dr Hugo BLÜMNER, a German archaeologist & classicist who in 1877 transferred to Zurich University
#antigone #reception #performance

Image of a XIX century leather photograph holder with German writing “Herrn Prof Dr H. Blumner, our Erinnerung an die Antigone-Aussuhrung in Zurich Mai 1887”

Image of a hand opening an old photograph case, showing a black and white photograph of a two actors, man and a woman dressed in Ancient Greek clothes in front of a black door opening with a staircase, gesturing.

Image of a eight old black and white pictures on a table, showing actors in various positions, gesturing, dressed in Ancient Greek robes, standing in front of a black door opening with a staircase

Image of a hand holding an old black and white photograph of a performance, five actors, two women and three men, standing in Ancient Greek robes in front of a black door opening with a staircase

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 7

Book Launch! Join us online to explore and celebrate the publication of the especial edition of the New American Studies Journal (Vol. 76, 2025) What Makes an American 'Classic'?, co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes. Zoom link: apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/

Photograph of a laptop and bookshelves with books in the background. On the laptop screen an image of a blue booklet saying"I am an American" and to the right "APGRD event, What makes an American Classic?"

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jul 3

This week the BADA (British American Drama Academy) Greek Theatre Summer Programme has come to the APGRD for a few days of enriching varied activities and workshops. Here they are interacting with some of the Archive’s fascinating collections.
#archive #classics #theatre #reception #drama #bada

Image of a table with showing some people's hands handling a number of black and white photographs inside archival plastic sleeves, books, paper articles, a laptop, an old recording inside an orange case and various old leaflets.

Picture of a group of young people in a teaching room sitting at tables looking at archive material (photographs, printouts, articles)

Image of a teaching room with a digital screen at the background, a middle age man in front of it explaining something, and a group of students at a table handling archival material

Image of a table with a number of black and white photographs inside archival plastic sleeves, also a book (Agamemnos) and a black notebook

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jun 30

We are now so close to the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Thu-Fri 3-4/07, and Prof Vicky Angelaki's fascinating guest lecture "Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres", 4:30pm Thu 3/07. In Person and ONLINE via Zoom. More details on the APGRD website.

Photo of a corridor with two stands with posters of Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception 3-4 July, and Lecture Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres, 4:30pm Thursday 3 July.

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jun 16

"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all.
#reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre

Image of a poster advertising a public lecture, reading: 4:30pm. Thursday 4 July. 3rd Floor Seminar Room Radcliffe Humanities Building. All Welcome. Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres. Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University). APGRD.

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jun 24

You are warmly invited to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July. University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London.
Zoom link and Programme now available: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Image of a screenshot showing a computer screen with a section of its keyboard, a picture of an ancient Greek fresco and writing "Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception"

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to our Advisory board members Prof Fiona Macintosh, former Director of the APGRD, Dr Ezra Baudou, and current APGRD Researcher Dr Giovanna Di Martino for their brilliant contributions to Théâtre Public, fresh out of the oven!
#theatrepublic #reception #drama #classics

Image of the cover of a journal called Théâtre Public, No 255 Avril-June 2025 "Matières Antiques", picturing a young brunette woman screaming and a dark wood with a doll on the bottom left illuminated by a light.

Image of a page of the journal with the title "Nous sommes toujours soumis aux mêmes passions, entretien avec Marina Carr, réalisé par Fiona Macintosh".

Image of two pages of the journal, on the right a picture in black and white of an amphitheatre and a group of people dancing in the centre, on the right a title "La tragédie est une mise en scène de l'experiénce de la communauté", entretien avec Marco Martinelli et Paul O'Mahony, réalisé par Ezra Baudou et Giovanna si Martino.

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jun 19

The recording of the 2025 annual Classics and English lecture delivered by Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou on Monday 2 June is now on YouTube! If you missed it, head to our YouTube channel to watch this truly fascinating lecture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eAh...

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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) @apgrd.bsky.social · Jun 16

"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all.
#reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre

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