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A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Agamemnon (translation by Oliver Taplin), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford). The cast includes Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, and Eunice Roberts. Toph Marshall is the guest director.
Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To learn about the Medea scene competition, visit out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
More information about the translation is available at wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781631494666-the-oresteia.
Learn about the performance history of Agamemnon: Beginnings and Whose Play? (books.apple.com/us/book/id1510978548) and Homecoming & Lyrics (books.apple.com/us/book/id1527763114).
Scene selections:
1-254: Watchman, Chorus
810-1240; 1305-1405: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Chorus, Cassandra
1515-end: Chorus, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus
Credits:
Agamemnon/Aegisthus/Watchman - Tim Delap
Cassandra - Evelyn Miler
Clytemnestra - Eunice Roberts
Chorus - Carlos Bellato and Tamieka Chavis
Director - Toph Marshall
Sound Design - Carlos Bellato
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading:
1) "'The Oresteia,' Bearer of Many Agendas" by Celia Wren in the New York Times:
nytimes.com/2000/05/07/theater/theater-the-oresteia-bearer-of-many-agendas.html
2) "The dynamics of misogyny: Myth and mythmaking in the Oresteia" by Froma Zeitlin in Playing the other: Gender and society in classical Greek literature. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.
3) "Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias" by Emily Wilson in the London Review of Books:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n19/emily-wilson/ah-how-miserable
A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Agamemnon (translation by Oliver Taplin), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford). The cast includes Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, and Eunice Roberts. Toph Marshall is the guest director.
Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To learn about the Medea scene competition, visit out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
More information about the translation is available at wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781631494666-the-oresteia.
Learn about the performance history of Agamemnon: Beginnings and Whose Play? (books.apple.com/us/book/id1510978548) and Homecoming & Lyrics (books.apple.com/us/book/id1527763114).
Scene selections:
1-254: Watchman, Chorus
810-1240; 1305-1405: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Chorus, Cassandra
1515-end: Chorus, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus
Credits:
Agamemnon/Aegisthus/Watchman - Tim Delap
Cassandra - Evelyn Miler
Clytemnestra - Eunice Roberts
Chorus - Carlos Bellato and Tamieka Chavis
Director - Toph Marshall
Sound Design - Carlos Bellato
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading:
1) "'The Oresteia,' Bearer of Many Agendas" by Celia Wren in the New York Times:
nytimes.com/2000/05/07/theater/theater-the-oresteia-bearer-of-many-agendas.html
2) "The dynamics of misogyny: Myth and mythmaking in the Oresteia" by Froma Zeitlin in Playing the other: Gender and society in classical Greek literature. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.
3) "Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias" by Emily Wilson in the London Review of Books:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n19/emily-wilson/ah-how-miserable
