The Body, in the reception of ancient drama

For abstracts from the previous Postgraduate Symposia
please see:
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events.htm


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Organisers:
Elina Dagonaki (University of Oxford)
Cécile Dudouyt (University of Oxford)
Zachary Dunbar (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Stephanie Harrop (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Eleftheria Ioannidou (University of Oxford)


Contact e-mail:
postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk






‘THE BODY'
IN THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT DRAMA



6TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
14TH – 15TH JUNE 2006



Organised by
the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London & the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford


Wednesday 14 June 2006 in Oxford

10.15 Coffee and welcome by Professor Oliver Taplin in the Classics Centre, George Street

BODY AND COSTUME

10.30 MARY-ROSE WYLES (University of Durham), ‘Body and costume: The “merged” physical medium of character'

11.00 RUTH THOMPSON (University of New England, Armidale, Australia), ‘Written on the
body: The tattooed women of Rosalba Clemente's Trojan chorus at the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide, November 2004'

11.30 Coffee break

THE BODY IN ANTIQUITY

12.00 ELENA VAOU (University of Paris VII), ‘Ritual aspects of a theatrical body: Euripidean ways of playing the role of the dead'

12.30 CELINE CANDIARD (École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris III), ‘A “danceless” character: The parasite's problematic body in Roman comedy'

13.00 COURTNEY WILSON (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Eros the psychosomatic tormentor: The Athenian broken heart in Hellenistic popular entertainment'

ARCHIVE LECTURE
(14.15, Magdalen College Auditorium)

Athol Fugard (Playwright) will appear in conversation with Marianne McDonald (Professor of Theatre & Classics, University of California, San Diego) on ‘The return of the myth: Athol Fugard and the classics', followed by a reception

PERFORMANCES
(Magdalen Auditorium)

17.00 MICHAEL PICARDIE (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Oedipus Africanus: Sophocles and Aristophanes on a dark continent, the unconscious'

17.30 THE JULIE THESMO SHOW (directed by Charles MacDougall)

19.15 Meeting after the shows to walk to Professor David Wiles' house for informal supper

Thursday 15 June 2006 at Royal Holloway, Egham

10.15 Coffee and welcome by Professor David Wiles in the Handa Noh Studio

CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE BODY

10.30 ZACHARY DUNBAR (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘All mouth, no body: The chorus in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex '

11.00 ALESSANDRA ZANOBI (University of Durham), ‘Pina Bausch's language of the body in Iphigenie auf Tauris'

11.30 ANNE-LAETITIA GARCIA (University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle), ‘Two bodies for Medea: Maria Callas, from Cherubini's opera to Pasolini's film'

12.00 ANNA SILVERSTEIN (Princeton University), ‘Hip-hop Aeschylus: The body as shield
in Will Power's The Seven'

12.30 Lunch break

BODY AS SPECTACLE (in the Boilerhouse)

13.30 STEPHANIE HARROP (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Cheironomia as a research tool?'

14.00 GÖZE SANER (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Iconography in training and performance'

14.30 Coffee break

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (in the Handa Noh Studio)

15.00 HELEN MCCABE (Somerville College, Oxford), ‘”To break your heart”: The body versus the psyche as the focus of pain and suffering in Greek tragedy, and the impact of this on contemporary productions'

15.30 MATTEO CAPPONI (University of Neuchâtel), ‘Exploring the way the text leads the
body: Two examples from a performance of Menander's Samia'

16.00 AKTINA STATHAKI (University of Toronto), ‘”Embodying” tragedy: Mobility and
stillness in Prometheus Bound and Endgame'

16.30 Wine and plenary discussion
PERFORMANCE
(Studio Theatre)

17.30 AND I RAISED MY HAND GLORIOUS (directed by Göze Saner)