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A reading and discussion of Aristophanes' Clouds (translation by Ian Johnston). Directed by Beth Burns, this adapted production features performances by James Callás Ball, Judd Farris, Tony Jayawardena, Patrick Walshe McBride, T. Lynn Mikeska, Richard Neale, René Thornton Jr., and Valoneecia Tolbert. Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Joel Alden Schlosser (Bryn Mawr College) lead the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.
For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
Text available at johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/aristophanes/cloudshtml.html. Most of the play will be performed with some sections cut for time.
Credits:
Socrates - Tony Jayawardena
Strepsaides - René Thornton Jr.
Pheidippides - Patrick Walshe McBride
Main Chorus - T. Lynn Mikeska, Valoneecia Tolbert
Main Student. -James Callás Ball
Good Argument - Judd Farris
Worse Argument - Richard Neale
Director - Beth Burns
Music - T. Lynn Mikeska
For biographical statements about the performers and commentators, please visit https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading:
1) Aristophanes. 1968. Clouds. Edited by Kenneth J. Dover. Oxford: Clarendon.
2) Cartledge, Paul. 1990. Aristophanes and his theatre of the absurd. Bristol, UK: Bristol Classical Press.
3) Moore, Christopher. "Socrates and Self-Knowledge in Aristophanes' Clouds." Classical Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2015): 534-51.
A reading and discussion of Aristophanes' Clouds (translation by Ian Johnston). Directed by Beth Burns, this adapted production features performances by James Callás Ball, Judd Farris, Tony Jayawardena, Patrick Walshe McBride, T. Lynn Mikeska, Richard Neale, René Thornton Jr., and Valoneecia Tolbert. Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Joel Alden Schlosser (Bryn Mawr College) lead the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.
For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
Text available at johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/aristophanes/cloudshtml.html. Most of the play will be performed with some sections cut for time.
Credits:
Socrates - Tony Jayawardena
Strepsaides - René Thornton Jr.
Pheidippides - Patrick Walshe McBride
Main Chorus - T. Lynn Mikeska, Valoneecia Tolbert
Main Student. -James Callás Ball
Good Argument - Judd Farris
Worse Argument - Richard Neale
Director - Beth Burns
Music - T. Lynn Mikeska
For biographical statements about the performers and commentators, please visit https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading:
1) Aristophanes. 1968. Clouds. Edited by Kenneth J. Dover. Oxford: Clarendon.
2) Cartledge, Paul. 1990. Aristophanes and his theatre of the absurd. Bristol, UK: Bristol Classical Press.
3) Moore, Christopher. "Socrates and Self-Knowledge in Aristophanes' Clouds." Classical Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2015): 534-51.
