Women of Troy
April 24, 2015
Lynn Fotheringham previews an imminent production of Euripides’ play at the University’s student theatre. A recent conversation I had with sisters Page and Eden Philips Harrington, director and producer of the New Theatre’s forthcoming production of Women of Troy (6th-9th May), revealed their creative ideas for dealing with the difficulties of putting on a Greek tragedy …
Comedy 2500
April 14, 2015
Alan Sommerstein commemorates a very special anniversary. It is exactly 2500 years ago this month that Athens saw its first official production of comic drama, at the Dionysia festival in the month of Elaphebolion (March/April), in the year that they called “the archonship of Telesinus” and we call 486 BC. (That’s 2500 years ago, not 2501 …
A Puzzle for the Holidays
April 11, 2015
Helen Lovatt finds a brainteaser for Latinists at Audley End. Sometimes it can be hard to escape from Classics. My family, for instance, like to visit country houses. What could be more relaxing than a tour of a grand residence, a walk in the park, and a cup of tea in the cafe? But then there …
The Night Raid
April 1, 2015
Helen Lovatt considers Caroline Lawrence’s The Night Raid and writing about the classical world for children. Several people in my Independent Second Year Project group have decided to write for an audience of children. We have been discussing how this can make a difference to your writing in both style and content. For …
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