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Plautus, Truculentus 775-853
In this scene, Callicles interrogates his own slave and the slave of Phronesium, the prostitute next door, in an attempt to find out the identity of the man who impregnated his unwed daughter, and learn the location of the missing baby. Diniarchus, that very man—and the lover of Phronesium—nervously awaits his inevitable exposure.
Version 1: performed in English, in the style of a mid-twentieth-century melodrama, complete with keyboard stingers. Translation of Sharon James, adapted by the cast. Prologue written by Laura Lippman and Meredith Safran. Epilogue written by Laura Lippman. Director: Laura Lippman
Post comments and questions here, or—better yet—post them on our blog page for Truculentus: romancomedyinperformance.blogspot.com/2012/09/truculentus.html.
Produced at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 2012, as part of the NEH Summer Institute, "Roman Comedy in Performance," co-directed by Sharon L. James and Timothy J. Moore. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Department of Classics and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, provided further funding.
For full information about the Institute and the scenes, go to: http://nehsummer2012romancomedy.web.unc.edu/
DVDs of all the performances from this Institute can be purchased here: romancomedyinperformance.blogspot.com/2013/05/order-your-dvds-here_19.html
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this web site do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Plautus, Truculentus 775-853
In this scene, Callicles interrogates his own slave and the slave of Phronesium, the prostitute next door, in an attempt to find out the identity of the man who impregnated his unwed daughter, and learn the location of the missing baby. Diniarchus, that very man—and the lover of Phronesium—nervously awaits his inevitable exposure.
Version 1: performed in English, in the style of a mid-twentieth-century melodrama, complete with keyboard stingers. Translation of Sharon James, adapted by the cast. Prologue written by Laura Lippman and Meredith Safran. Epilogue written by Laura Lippman. Director: Laura Lippman
Post comments and questions here, or—better yet—post them on our blog page for Truculentus: romancomedyinperformance.blogspot.com/2012/09/truculentus.html.
Produced at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 2012, as part of the NEH Summer Institute, "Roman Comedy in Performance," co-directed by Sharon L. James and Timothy J. Moore. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Department of Classics and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, provided further funding.
For full information about the Institute and the scenes, go to: http://nehsummer2012romancomedy.web.unc.edu/
DVDs of all the performances from this Institute can be purchased here: romancomedyinperformance.blogspot.com/2013/05/order-your-dvds-here_19.html
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this web site do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
