Classics News

Randolph to Host Conference on Ancient Drama

April 1, 2010
 Event will coincide with the October 2010 performances of The Greek Play



The classics department of Randolph College will host a one-day conference “Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice” on October 9, 2010.

According to organizer Amy R. Cohen, associate professor of classics, the conference will provide an opportunity to witness and reflect on an original-practices Greek play that aims to be a living drama rather than a museum piece and also to share and discuss other productive ways of playing Greek drama.

The meeting will coincide with the production of a new translation of Euripides’ Hecuba directed by Cohen.

Featured speakers include Kenneth Reckford, professor emeritus of classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Mary-Kay Gamel, professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The call for papers can be found at http://faculty2.randolphcollege.edu/ancientdrama.

The conference is made possible by a grant from Randolph College.

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