Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
Oxford University
16 episodes
3 months ago
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. Creation Theatre's digital production of Antigone premiered in May 2024 and is being revived 26-28 September and 21-23 November 2024. For information and tickets see: https://creationtheatre.co.uk/show/antigone/
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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. Creation Theatre's digital production of Antigone premiered in May 2024 and is being revived 26-28 September and 21-23 November 2024. For information and tickets see: https://creationtheatre.co.uk/show/antigone/
The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated People
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
43 minutes
3 years ago
The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated People
A podcast episode with Nancy Rabinowitz, Rhodessa Jones, and Angela Wilson Rhodessa Jones is a theatre practitioner and artistic director, and founded The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle in 1989. Nancy Rabinowitz is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, and has worked extensively on the impact of Greek theatre in prisons, and co-edited Classics and Prison Education in the US (2021). Angela Wilson is a formerly incarcerated mother, writer, actress, teacher, activist, and a core member of the Medea Project. The three discuss the Medea Project's origins, latest residency, and their engagement with myth as a ritual of resilience.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
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. Creation Theatre's digital production of Antigone premiered in May 2024 and is being revived 26-28 September and 21-23 November 2024. For information and tickets see: https://creationtheatre.co.uk/show/antigone/
