The Theatre History Podcast
Episode 105: The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama with Professor Fiona Macintosh
November 21, 202350 min · 7,389 words
Show notes
Ancient Greek and Roman drama has influenced theatre for millennia, and playwrights and other artists from around the world continue to draw inspiration from these works. Professor Fiona Macintosh joins us to talk about the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University and how it's been a resource for those who want to learn more about how these works have been - and continue to be - performed.
Highlighted moments
once you have rethought something because of something you've read, it's very difficult to unread it to clean your perceptual filters
“those tapestries in Katie Mitchell's production have little girls' dresses stitched all over it. So we watched him literally treading on his past, wading through the horrors and repeating, reenacting the shocking and fatal events at Aulis.”
“suddenly, people, and increasingly artists during the course of the 20th century, realised that epic is improvisatory, just like jazz is improvisatory.”
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