Newsletter 24

May 2017

NewAPGRDMembersTheAPGRDisdelightedtoannouncethatProfessorDameMarinaWarnerhasagreedtobecomeanHonoraryAssociateoftheArchiveandAliceOswaldtobecomeanArtisticAssociate.

MarinaWarnerisProfessorofEnglishandCreativeWritingatBirkbeckCollege,UniversityofLondon.Sheisanovelist,short-storywriter,andhistorian,knownforhermanynon-fictionbooksonwomeninmythandonfairy-talesandtheimportanceofstorytelling.ShehasalonghistoryofinvolvementwiththeAPGRD’sactivitiesdatingfromour1998‘MedeainPerformance’conference.MostrecentlyshepresidedovertheAPGRD’s‘ItalyandtheClassics’conferencein2016.

AliceOswaldisanaward-winningpoetwithanever-growingreputation.ShestudiedClassicsatNewCollege,andhasinrecentyearsincreasinglyvisitedOxfordandtheAPGRD.In2012,sheperformedherpoemMemorial,an‘excavationoftheIliad’forus,andshereturnedtotheArchiveinOctober2016toperformfromherlatestcollection,FallingAwakeandfromunpublishedwork-in-progress.

WearealsoverypleasedtoannouncethattheAPGRDAdvisoryBoardnowhastwonewmembers:

DrHelenEastman(left,TheatreDirector,playwrightandlibrettist,APGRDArtistAssociate,ArtisticDirectorLiveCanon,SeniorReaderatSohoTheatre,DirectorCambridgeGreekPlay(2010-2016),APGRDOnassisProducer(2005-11)).

DrJustineMcConnell(right,LecturerinComparativeLiterature,KCL,formerlyAPGRD’sResearchAssociateontheLeverhulme-funded‘PerformingEpic’project,TORCHEarlyCareerFellowandBowraJuniorResearchFellowatWadhamCollege,Oxford).Justine’spublicationsinclude:BlackOdysseys:TheHomericOdysseyintheAfricanDiasporasince1939(OUP2013)andforthcoming(withFionaMacintosh),TellingTalesandPerformingEpic.

ArtistinResidence:Marie-LouiseCrawley

TheAPGRDwelcomeschoreographeranddanceartistMarie-LouiseCrawleyasArtistinResidenceforsixmonthsfromJanuarytoJune2017.

Duringherresidency,Marie-Louiseislookingattherolethemaskplaysinperformance,andinherownchoreographicwork.SheisalsocollaboratingwiththeAshmoleanMuseumtoexplorethepotentialofthefemaleperformerintheMuseumspace.Thisincludesputtingherresearchondanceperformancewithinarchaeologicalmuseumsintopractice,withperformancesattheAshmolean;onFriday3MarchsheperformedaspartoftheAshmolean'sSupersonicLiveFridayevent.ShewillalsobeperformingthereonSunday25JuneandaspartofourAnnualPostgraduateSymposiumon26June(seebelow).

Marie-Louise(above,photo©ChristianHunt)trainedwithMarcelMarceauinParisandthenjoinedArianeMnouchkine'sThéâtreduSoleil,whereshewasforsevenyears.IntheUKshehasworkedwiththeBirminghamOperaCompany,MarcBrew,GaryClarke,BalletCymru,RosieKayDanceCompany,andAvidforOvid.ShelecturesinChoreographyandPerformanceattheUniversityofWorcesterandisalsoaPhDcandidateattheCentreforDanceResearch(C-DaRE)atCoventryUniversity.

PostgraduateSymposium2017:‘MovementandLimits’

OnMonday26andTuesday27JunetheAPGRDandRoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon,willhostthe17thAnnualJointPostgraduateSymposiumonAncientDrama.

This year’s theme, ‘movements and limitsin the theory and practice of ancientdrama’, isatimelyresponsetothecurrentsurge of scholarly interest in massgeopolitical movement and nationalboundaries, in corporeality and formalconventions. Postgraduates and earlycareer researchers from a number ofcountrieswillgivepapersonthereceptionofGreekandRomandrama.

Day1attheIoannouCentre,Oxford,willincludeadanceperformancebyMarie-LouiseCrawleyintheAshmoleanMuseum,at11am;andwillconcludeat6pmwithafreepubliclecturebyDrIsabelleTorrance(Aarhus)on:‘(Im)/mobilityinTomPaulin'sSeizetheFire’.

Day2atRHUL,willincludealecture/demonstrationbyProf.ElizabethSchafer(RHUL)ofJaneLumley’sIphigeniaatAulis(1557)andadiscussionbetweenDrEmmaCox(RHUL)andProf.FionaMacintoshonprocessionalmovement.OurguestrespondentwillbeDrHelenSlaney(RoehamptonUniversity).

Thefullprogrammeofpapersandspeakersisavailablehere.

Youaremostwelcometoattendoneorbothdays,orthepubliclecture.Free,allwelcome,noregistrationorfees.

CelebratingKarolosKoun:Anexhibitionandone-dayconference

On Friday 22 September the APGRD will host an exhibition and one-dayconference to celebrate the life of Karolos Koun (1908-1987), widelyconsidered to have been the greatest Greek theatre director of moderntimes.

Theconference isco-organisedwithDrAngelikiVarakis-Martin (UniversityofKent).TheexhibitionistobecuratedbythetheatredesignersandKouncollaborators, Dionysis Fotopoulos and Lily Pezanou. Confirmed speakersand chairs include: Dio Kangelari (Thessaloniki), Hans-Thiess Lehmann(Frankfurt am Main), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Platon Mavromoustakos(Athens), Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol), Eleni Papazoglou (Thessaloniki),Giorgos Sampatakakis (Patras), Gonda van Steen (Florida), Oliver Taplin(Oxford),AngelikiVarakis-Martin(Kent)andHelenVaropoulou(Berlin).

Theprogrammeisavailablehere.

Registrationcosts£20(£10studentconcession).Therewillbeanoptionalconferencedinneratanadditionalcostof£35.ToregisterpleasevisittheUniversityofOxford’sstorewebsite

DonationtotheLibraryfromthecollectionofGrahamPalmer

TheAPGRDisverygratefulfortherecentdonationofanear-completesetofcopiesofthemagazine Theatre World, covering the period 1927 to 1965. Theatre World was issuedmonthly,andcontainsexcellentreviews,productionphotographs,andessentialinformationincluding dates, locations and casting for many productions in our database. The copiescomefromthecollectionofthe lateGrahamPalmer,whoranamail-orderbookbusiness,‘WWIIBooks’forover26years,afteracareerintheCity.MrPalmerdiedin2009,andthecopies of TheatreWorld have generously been donated by his children Carol andMylesPalmer.Weintendtohavethevolumesboundandindexed,inordertomakethisvaluableresourceavailableforresearchers.

Image:VivienLeighasAntigoneonthefrontcoverofTheatreWorld,April1949

Medea,aperformancehistoryanAPGRDmultimedia/interactivee-book

The first of the APGRD’s AHRC-funded multimedia interactive ebooks, Medea, aperformance history by Fiona Macintosh, Claire Kenward, and Tom Wrobel is nowavailablefreetodownloadasaniBook(forMacusers)throughiBooks/iTunesandasaneBookonourwebsite.Theebookdrawsonauniquecollectionofarchivalmaterialandresearchat theAPGRDanduses images, film,unique interviewsanddigital objects totellthestoryofaplaythathasinspiredcountlessinterpretations,onstageandonscreen,in dance, drama and operaacross the globe fromantiquitytothepresent.

Fiona Macintosh presentedthe ebooks at the Society forClassical Studies meeting inToronto in January 2017, aspart of the Presidential Panelon ‘Communicating Classical

Scholarship’.Shealsoshowcasedthefirstchapterofourforthcomingsecondmultimediaebook,Agamemnon,aperformancehistory.

APGRD/HARColloquiumonCanonandRepertoireII

On30-31March2017,the7thAPGRD/HistoiredesArtsatDesRepreséntationsColloquiumwasheldattheIoannouCentre,withsupportfromtheMaisonFrançaised'Oxford.SpeakersfromOxford,ParisOuestNanterre,Paris3,Paris13,andNantesjoinedindiscussionson the themeofCanonandRepertoire. The symposium featuredaperformance fromAPGRDartist in residence,Marie-LouiseCrawley:‘Whatremains?DancingtheMetamorphoses’.ThisoccasionincludedapartytolaunchthemonographbyAPGRDAssociateEleftheriaIoannidouinOxfordUniversityPress’sClassicalPresencesseries,GreekFragmentsinPostmodernFrames:RewritingTragedy1970–2005,alongsideaspecialeditionoftheonlinejournalAtlantide,Violence tragique et guerres antiques au miroir du théâtre et du cinéma,editedbyTiphaineKarsentiandLucieThévenet(Atlantide6,2017),whichcontainsarticlesfrompreviousAPGRD/HARcolloquia.

UpcomingAPGRDEvents

Monday26JuneIoannouCentre,66StGiles’,Oxfordand

Tuesday27JuneCarylChurchillTheatre,RoyalHollowayUniversityofLondon

from10.30am

17thAnnualJointOxford/LondonPostgraduateSymposiumonthePerformanceofAncientDramaTheme:‘MovementandLimitsintheTheoryandPracticeofAncientDrama’.

Allarewelcometothistwo-daysymposium.ThefirstdayisbasedattheIoannouCentreinOxfordandtheseconddayattheCarylChurchillTheatreatRHUL.

Theeventisfreeandnobookingisrequired.

Thefullprogrammeisavailablehere.

6pmMonday26JuneLectureTheatre,IoannouCentre,66StGiles’,Oxford

(Im)/mobilityinTomPaulin’sSeizetheFireApubliclecturebyIsabelleTorrance(Aarhus).

ThislecturecomesattheendofDayOneofthePostgraduateSymposiumonthePerformanceofAncientDrama(attendanceatthesymposiumisnotrequired).

Allarewelcome.Theeventisfreeandnobookingisrequired.

22September2017from9.30amJdPMusicBuilding,StHilda’sCollege,Oxford.

withlunchandexhibitionintheIoannouCentre,66StGiles’,Oxford

CelebratingKarolosKoun

Aone-dayconferenceandexhibitionco-organisedbytheAPGRDwithDrAngelikiVarakis-Martin(UniversityofKent).Furtherdetailscanbefoundonoureventpage.

Registrationis£20(£10concession).Therewillbeanoptionalconferencedinneratanadditionalcostof£35.

PleaseregisteronlineviatheUniversity’sstorewebsite

@APGRDYoucanfollowtheAPGRDonTwitterandFacebookformoreimmediateupdatesaboutoureventsandresearch,aswellasinformalandinteractivediscussionsabouttheperformancereceptionofancienttexts.