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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. |
Helen Eastman, Giovanna Di Martino, Claire Barnes |
26 Sep 2024 |
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Choreographing Sophocles |
A podcast episode with Leo Aylen and David Wiles |
Leo Aylen, David Wiles |
05 Jun 2023 |
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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 |
Naomi Weiss |
15 Dec 2021 |
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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. |
Oliver Taplin, Karen Leeder, Lucy Jackson, Wes Williams |
01 Mar 2021 |
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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 |
Oliver Taplin, Fiona Shaw |
04 Nov 2020 |
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Creative Commons |
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. |
Fiona Macintosh, Nur Laiq, Hal Scardino |
18 Jun 2019 |
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The Gaisford Lecture 2016: Transmitting Tragedy |
The Gaisford Lecture 2016: Transmitting Tragedy, delivered by Patrick Finglass |
Patrick Finglass |
02 Nov 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
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. |
Frank McGuinness, Fiona Macintosh |
11 Aug 2016 |
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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 |
Ian Rickson |
09 Aug 2016 |
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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. |
Tania Demetriou, Helen Slaney, Henriette Korthals Altes, John McKeane |
22 Oct 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
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. |
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
01 Mar 2010 |
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Creative Commons |
Adapting Greek Tragedy |
Fiona Macintosh talks with distinguished playwright Frank McGuinness about his work in adapting Greek tragedies for modern theatre, particularly Antigone and The Medea. |
Fiona Macintosh, Frank McGuinness |
28 Jan 2010 |
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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. |
Fiona Macintosh |
22 Apr 2009 |
