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A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Suppliants (translation by Herbert Weir-Smyth, with revisions by Rebecca Futo Kennedy), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University) and Roshni Chakraborty (Harvard University). Featured actors include Tamieka Chavis, Tabatha Gayle, David Rubin, Damian Jermaine Thompson, and Argyris Xafis.
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 or check out out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
The text is available at scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg001.perseus-eng2:1-20/.
Scene selections:
1-233: Chorus, Danaus
234-503: King (Pelasgus), Chorus, Danaus
600-824: Danaus, Chorus
843-1073: Chorus, Herald, Danaus, King (Pelasgus), Chorus of Handmaidens
Cast:
Chorus - Tamieka Chavis and Tabatha Gayle
Danaus - David Rubin
King - Damian Jermaine Thompson
Herald of Aegyptus - Argyris Xafis
Director - Paul O'Mahony
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading;
1) "Greeks, Barbarians and Aeschylus' Suppliants" by Lynette Mitchell:
ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/49045/LMitchellGreeksBarbarians.pdf;seq
2) "The (Black)Faces of Aeschylus' Suppliants" by Rebecca Futo Kennedy:
rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-blackfaces-of-aeschylus-suppliants.html
3) "Suppliant Women and the Democratic State: White Men Saving Brown Women from Brown Men" by Victoria Wohl in When Worlds Elide, edited by Karen Bassi and J. Peter Euben. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010.
A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Suppliants (translation by Herbert Weir-Smyth, with revisions by Rebecca Futo Kennedy), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University) and Roshni Chakraborty (Harvard University). Featured actors include Tamieka Chavis, Tabatha Gayle, David Rubin, Damian Jermaine Thompson, and Argyris Xafis.
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 or check out out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
The text is available at scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg001.perseus-eng2:1-20/.
Scene selections:
1-233: Chorus, Danaus
234-503: King (Pelasgus), Chorus, Danaus
600-824: Danaus, Chorus
843-1073: Chorus, Herald, Danaus, King (Pelasgus), Chorus of Handmaidens
Cast:
Chorus - Tamieka Chavis and Tabatha Gayle
Danaus - David Rubin
King - Damian Jermaine Thompson
Herald of Aegyptus - Argyris Xafis
Director - Paul O'Mahony
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading;
1) "Greeks, Barbarians and Aeschylus' Suppliants" by Lynette Mitchell:
ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/49045/LMitchellGreeksBarbarians.pdf;seq
2) "The (Black)Faces of Aeschylus' Suppliants" by Rebecca Futo Kennedy:
rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-blackfaces-of-aeschylus-suppliants.html
3) "Suppliant Women and the Democratic State: White Men Saving Brown Women from Brown Men" by Victoria Wohl in When Worlds Elide, edited by Karen Bassi and J. Peter Euben. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010.
