The Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Drama Conference
Institute of Classical Studies
11-13 June 2008
WEDNESDAY 11 June 9:45-10:00
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Mike Edwards Director of the Institute of Classical Studies
Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni Conference Organiser
10:00-11:30 The Problem of the Spectators: Ancient and Modern
Professor Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
(Re)Constructing the ancient audience: the implications for reception
Helen Eastman (Oxford)
The Director and the modern audience
Associate Professor Peter Eversmann (University of Amsterdam)
The practical and cognitive aspects of audience response
11:30- 1:00 Reception Theory
Chair: Dr Gesine Manuwald
Dr. Chiara Thumiger (UCL)
Hallucination drunkenness and mirrors: ancient reception of modern drama
Pauline Rochelle (Open University)
Reaching Across the Diasporic Gulf – Shake Hands with the ‘Real’ Agamemnon
Dr. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia)
Acting Perspectives: performance experience as a route to reception
Lunch 1:00- 2:00
2:00- 4:00 Rome to modern times
Chair: Professor Lorna Hardwick
Dr. Jean-Michel Hulls (St. Annes’ College, Oxford)
Re-Reading Seneca: The tragic tyrant and his values in Statius’ Thebaid
Dr. Lisa Maurice (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Contaminatio and Adaptation: Roman Comedy and the Modern Reception of Ancient Drama
Assistant Professor Ariana Traill (University of Illinois at Urbana)
Casina and The Comedy of Errors
Dr. Gesine Manuwald (UCL)
Love and politics on the stage in imperial Rome and in 17th century Europe: the presudo-Senecan praetexta Octavia and the opera Il Nerone (1679)
Coffee Break 4:00- 4:30
4:30- 6:00 Reception in Art
Chair: Dr Ariana Traill
Ioanna Karamanou (Drama, University of the Peloponnese)
The Attack Scene in Euripides’s Alexandros and its Reception in Etruscan Art
Hara Thliveri (UCL)
Surrealism and Tradition in the paintings of Nikos Engonopoulos
Philip Walsh (Comparative Literature, Brown University)
Aubrey Beardsley: Reader and Critic of the Lysistrata
Evening Reception
THURSDAY 12 June
10:00- 11:00 Greek Drama in Modern Greek Film: Michael Cacoyannis
Chair: Professor Maria Wyke
Professor Charles Chiasson (University of Texas at Arlington)
The Power of the Peasantry in Michael Cacoyannis’ Electra
Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni (ICS)
Cacoyannis’ Iphigenia: the power of the mob
11-1:00 The Reception of Greek Drama in Modern Greece
Chair: Dr Anastasia Bakogianni
Dr. Gonda Van Steen (University of Arizona)
All the King’s Patriots…: Romanticist Persians in Athens of 1889
Dr. Efimia Karakantza (University of Patras)
Electra's menos: Sophocles vs Stein in the 2007 Production of Electra by the National Theater of Greece
Gregory Ioannidis
(Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens)
Fighting and dying for Ancient Greek Drama: “Scandals” in the history of Ancient Drama performances in Modern Greece
Maria Troupi (Open University, Cyprus)
Bost’s Medea: Exploring aspects of the reception of Euripides and the tragic genre in Modern Greece
Lunch 1:00- 2:00
2:00- 4:00 Performance Reception 1
Chair: Dr. Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading)
The Deaths of Astyanax
Catherine Jackson (Open University)
The R.S.C. and Greek Drama: Deborah Warner’s Electra and Katie Mitchell’s Phoenician Women
Dr. Athena Coronis (Theatre Studies, University of Patras)
Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice: A Dramatic Study of the Orpheus Myth in Reverse
Marcel Lysgaard Lech (University of Copenhagen)
No Sex in the City – a look at the reception of Lysistrata on the modern Danish scene
Coffee Break 4:00- 4:30
4:30- 6:00 Performance Reception 2
Chair: Professor Charles Chiasson
Elke Steinmeyer (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Greek Drama in Africa
Professor Yoshiko Nishimure (Wakayama Medical University, Japan)
The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Japan
Dr. Hans Peter Obermayer (Munich City College)
“Absolute Alcestis” Robert Wilson stages Euripides and Heiner Müller 1987 in Stuttgart
Laura Monros-Gaspar (Universitat de València)
Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the Roman Theatre of Sagunto (1982-2008)
FRIDAY: 13 June
10:00-11:00 Byzantium to modern times
Chair: Dr. Gonda Van Steen
Dr. Antony Makrinos (UCL)
Tragedy in Byzantium: Eustathius and Sophocles Ο Φιλόμηρος
Dr. Marigo Alexopoulou (Hellenic Open University)
The reception of Euripides’ Bacchae: from Byzantium to the present
11:00-1:00 The Reception of Medea
Chair: Dr. Chiara Thumiger
Sue Day (Open University)
Witch Medea? Visual representations of a mythical woman
Dr. Georgi Gochev (New Bulgarian University, Sofia)
Tutto e santo: Mythical and realistic features in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea
Dr. Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
(The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo)
Medea in Brazil: Agostinho Olavo´s Além do Rio, and Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes´ Gota d`água
Tatjana Manojlovich (Theatre Studies, University of Lisbon)
Medea's Love: Helia Correia's Desmesura. Exercícios com Medeia
Lunch 1:00-2:00
2:00- 3:30 French Receptions
Chair: Dr. Zachary Dunbar
Paul Monaghan (Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne)
Peladan’s symbolist Prometheide and the transformation of the world in fin de siècle Paris
Dr. Betine van Zyl Smit (University of Nottingham)
The Reception of Andromache in Latin and French literature
Dr. Susanna Phillippo (University of Newcastle)
Accidental creativity
Coffee Break 3:30-4:00
4:00-5:30 Audio-Musical Reception
Chair: Dr. Betine van Zyl Smit
Amanda Wrigley (APGRD, Oxford)
Greek Drama on Radio
Angeliki Zachou (Theatre Studies, University of Athens)
Music and the tragic feeling in Modern Greek performances of Ancient Greek Drama
Dr. Zachary Dunbar, Director/Writer and Concert Pianist (London)
Did the earth move for you? The cathartic event in tragedy and music
This paper will be illustrated by a piano performance
Screening of Michael Cacoyannis’ The Trojan Women
With regards to costs they are as follows:
Full rate: £90.00
Speakers/students: £ 60.00
Day rate for speakers/students: £25.00
Day rate: £35.00
Institute of Classical Studies
11-13 June 2008
WEDNESDAY 11 June 9:45-10:00
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Mike Edwards Director of the Institute of Classical Studies
Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni Conference Organiser
10:00-11:30 The Problem of the Spectators: Ancient and Modern
Professor Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
(Re)Constructing the ancient audience: the implications for reception
Helen Eastman (Oxford)
The Director and the modern audience
Associate Professor Peter Eversmann (University of Amsterdam)
The practical and cognitive aspects of audience response
11:30- 1:00 Reception Theory
Chair: Dr Gesine Manuwald
Dr. Chiara Thumiger (UCL)
Hallucination drunkenness and mirrors: ancient reception of modern drama
Pauline Rochelle (Open University)
Reaching Across the Diasporic Gulf – Shake Hands with the ‘Real’ Agamemnon
Dr. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia)
Acting Perspectives: performance experience as a route to reception
Lunch 1:00- 2:00
2:00- 4:00 Rome to modern times
Chair: Professor Lorna Hardwick
Dr. Jean-Michel Hulls (St. Annes’ College, Oxford)
Re-Reading Seneca: The tragic tyrant and his values in Statius’ Thebaid
Dr. Lisa Maurice (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Contaminatio and Adaptation: Roman Comedy and the Modern Reception of Ancient Drama
Assistant Professor Ariana Traill (University of Illinois at Urbana)
Casina and The Comedy of Errors
Dr. Gesine Manuwald (UCL)
Love and politics on the stage in imperial Rome and in 17th century Europe: the presudo-Senecan praetexta Octavia and the opera Il Nerone (1679)
Coffee Break 4:00- 4:30
4:30- 6:00 Reception in Art
Chair: Dr Ariana Traill
Ioanna Karamanou (Drama, University of the Peloponnese)
The Attack Scene in Euripides’s Alexandros and its Reception in Etruscan Art
Hara Thliveri (UCL)
Surrealism and Tradition in the paintings of Nikos Engonopoulos
Philip Walsh (Comparative Literature, Brown University)
Aubrey Beardsley: Reader and Critic of the Lysistrata
Evening Reception
THURSDAY 12 June
10:00- 11:00 Greek Drama in Modern Greek Film: Michael Cacoyannis
Chair: Professor Maria Wyke
Professor Charles Chiasson (University of Texas at Arlington)
The Power of the Peasantry in Michael Cacoyannis’ Electra
Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni (ICS)
Cacoyannis’ Iphigenia: the power of the mob
11-1:00 The Reception of Greek Drama in Modern Greece
Chair: Dr Anastasia Bakogianni
Dr. Gonda Van Steen (University of Arizona)
All the King’s Patriots…: Romanticist Persians in Athens of 1889
Dr. Efimia Karakantza (University of Patras)
Electra's menos: Sophocles vs Stein in the 2007 Production of Electra by the National Theater of Greece
Gregory Ioannidis
(Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens)
Fighting and dying for Ancient Greek Drama: “Scandals” in the history of Ancient Drama performances in Modern Greece
Maria Troupi (Open University, Cyprus)
Bost’s Medea: Exploring aspects of the reception of Euripides and the tragic genre in Modern Greece
Lunch 1:00- 2:00
2:00- 4:00 Performance Reception 1
Chair: Dr. Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading)
The Deaths of Astyanax
Catherine Jackson (Open University)
The R.S.C. and Greek Drama: Deborah Warner’s Electra and Katie Mitchell’s Phoenician Women
Dr. Athena Coronis (Theatre Studies, University of Patras)
Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice: A Dramatic Study of the Orpheus Myth in Reverse
Marcel Lysgaard Lech (University of Copenhagen)
No Sex in the City – a look at the reception of Lysistrata on the modern Danish scene
Coffee Break 4:00- 4:30
4:30- 6:00 Performance Reception 2
Chair: Professor Charles Chiasson
Elke Steinmeyer (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Greek Drama in Africa
Professor Yoshiko Nishimure (Wakayama Medical University, Japan)
The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Japan
Dr. Hans Peter Obermayer (Munich City College)
“Absolute Alcestis” Robert Wilson stages Euripides and Heiner Müller 1987 in Stuttgart
Laura Monros-Gaspar (Universitat de València)
Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the Roman Theatre of Sagunto (1982-2008)
FRIDAY: 13 June
10:00-11:00 Byzantium to modern times
Chair: Dr. Gonda Van Steen
Dr. Antony Makrinos (UCL)
Tragedy in Byzantium: Eustathius and Sophocles Ο Φιλόμηρος
Dr. Marigo Alexopoulou (Hellenic Open University)
The reception of Euripides’ Bacchae: from Byzantium to the present
11:00-1:00 The Reception of Medea
Chair: Dr. Chiara Thumiger
Sue Day (Open University)
Witch Medea? Visual representations of a mythical woman
Dr. Georgi Gochev (New Bulgarian University, Sofia)
Tutto e santo: Mythical and realistic features in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea
Dr. Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
(The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo)
Medea in Brazil: Agostinho Olavo´s Além do Rio, and Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes´ Gota d`água
Tatjana Manojlovich (Theatre Studies, University of Lisbon)
Medea's Love: Helia Correia's Desmesura. Exercícios com Medeia
Lunch 1:00-2:00
2:00- 3:30 French Receptions
Chair: Dr. Zachary Dunbar
Paul Monaghan (Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne)
Peladan’s symbolist Prometheide and the transformation of the world in fin de siècle Paris
Dr. Betine van Zyl Smit (University of Nottingham)
The Reception of Andromache in Latin and French literature
Dr. Susanna Phillippo (University of Newcastle)
Accidental creativity
Coffee Break 3:30-4:00
4:00-5:30 Audio-Musical Reception
Chair: Dr. Betine van Zyl Smit
Amanda Wrigley (APGRD, Oxford)
Greek Drama on Radio
Angeliki Zachou (Theatre Studies, University of Athens)
Music and the tragic feeling in Modern Greek performances of Ancient Greek Drama
Dr. Zachary Dunbar, Director/Writer and Concert Pianist (London)
Did the earth move for you? The cathartic event in tragedy and music
This paper will be illustrated by a piano performance
Screening of Michael Cacoyannis’ The Trojan Women
With regards to costs they are as follows:
Full rate: £90.00
Speakers/students: £ 60.00
Day rate for speakers/students: £25.00
Day rate: £35.00