Greek Tragedy: Masterclasses on Film
Project Lead:
Fiona Macintosh | Faculty of Classics
Partner Organisations:
Paul O’Mahony, Out of Chaos
APGRD - Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
Academics & Scholar Practitioners:
Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford)
Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
Dr Lyndsay Coo (University of Bristol)
Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Actor, writer, academic. Former director of The Centre for Theatre & Performance, Monash University).
Greek Tragedy – Masterclasses on Film brought together international practitioners and experts to make a short film about Antigone aimed at online theatre audiences, as well as university and school students. The project built on the success of Out of Chaos' Reading Greek Tragedy Online. In collaboration with Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, Out of Chaos staged one Greek play per week on YouTube after Covid-19 closed theatres around the world, featuring 75 artists from eight countries, including leading actors from the RSC, Shakespeare's Globe and the American Shakespeare Center. The project attracted more than 85,000 views. The masterclass film also built on the success of the interactive multimedia e-book project developed by the APGRD in Oxford Classics. These e-books also brought new audiences to the ancient plays and proved particularly valuable to actor trainers, for whom the e-books' "interactive aspects have added the much needed sense of liveness [during the pandemic], especially for classes that have a workshop element" [Actor trainer, Tisch School, NYU, 16/6/2020].
The film explored the central characters of Antigone and Creon, played by two actors who explored different interpretations through dialogue with a director, demonstrating how plays could be reimagined in performance and through the rehearsal process, alongside contributions from practitioners in the creative industries and academia.
The film premiered as part of a live event on Friday 11 June at 5pm.
Friday 11th June
Greek Tragedy - Masterclasses on Film is led by Professor Fiona Macintosh (Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford) in collaboration with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama and Out of Chaos Theatre Company. It also features Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford), Dr Lyndsay Coo (University of Bristol) and Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Actor, writer, academic. Former director of The Centre for Theatre & Performance, Monash University).
Join the discussion on Friday 11th June from 5.00pm to hear more about this exciting project from those involved, followed by a live premiere of the full film at 5.30pm.
Watch the trailer below
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7-KtaxjsgHw
Live Discussion: Friday 11th June at 5.00pm
Film Premiere: Friday 11th June at 5.30pm
Actor biographies:
Tim Delap has performed several times in leading roles at the National Theatre and in the West End. He recently played Rochester in the National Theatre’s critically-acclaimed Jane Eyre, and he is an associate artist of Out of Chaos.
Evelyn Miller just finished playing Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe. Other recent credits include leading roles at the National Theatre and RSC. Evvy is an associate director of Actors From The London Stage, and an associate artist of Out of Chaos
Actor biographies:
Tim Delap has performed several times in leading roles at the National Theatre and in the West End. He recently played Rochester in the National Theatre’s critically-acclaimed Jane Eyre, and he is an associate artist of Out of Chaos.
Evelyn Miller just finished playing Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe. Other recent credits include leading roles at the National Theatre and RSC. Evvy is an associate director of Actors From The London Stage, and an associate artist of Out of Chaos
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