Over the years we’ve performed retellings and re-imaginings of Euripides’ Bacchae and Medea and Aeschylus’ Oresteia , as well as new poetry inspired by characters from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey . These recordings have opened up major productions to viewers who may otherwise never have seen them. Meanwhile, performers SJ Brady, Sinead Costelloe, and Rosa Whicker moved around their performance spaces, sometimes closer to the camera and sometimes further away, offering a tantalising glimpse into the private space of Medea’s unhappy home. The performance was followed by a post-show discussion with theatre and classics academics and practitioners; both are still available to view on YouTube (with closed captions available). The exclamations “by Jove” and “by Jupiter” eventually filtered into poetic and literary English, but they were not euphemisms at first, since they invoked the name of an actual Roman deity.

For example, Pandora's box is correctly translated and an explanation given as to when the mistranslation arose and what the real term means. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.in England, Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer are determined to lead the resistance ! This talented, young company is providing the kind of quality fringe theatre usually absent from South London’s SW postcodes. Hearing company members read new work over Skype reconnected us with each other and with the material we’ve been working with for over a year now. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Spotty and anecdotal, without any real educational structure, this is a series of short micro-essays on various stories from ancient Greek myth.

There have been some benefits for audiences: for example, the National Theatre has been freely broadcasting a number of recordings from its back catalogue on YouTube. LoveArts, a monthly new writing night featuring music, spoken word, poetry, and drama, comes to the Gallery Café, Bethnal Green, for a six-month season.Since 2011, I’ve been a part of By Jove Theatre Company , a theatre collective with a feminist, socialist ethos that tells old stories in new ways.

It’s a very British expression (as indeed is your haven’t a clue and your reference to I know a man who can, a current advertising slogan from the Automobile Association). We think about how myths, legends, and tales from the cultural canon – some familiar, some less so – can speak to audiences in the 21st century. Haines’ version of Medea is a modern one, with an almost sole focus on the woman herself as her inner monologue is split between three voices.

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