Inspiration from tatters : reconstructed ancient Greek plays on the modern stage
This thesis in Classical Performance Reception Studies asks how some fragmentary ancient Athenian dramasâa satyr play (Sophoclesâ Trackers), and several tragedies (the lost plays of Aeschylusâ trilogy about the Danaids, Sophoclesâ Tereus, and Euripidesâ Hypsipyle and Alcmaeon in Corinth) have informed some experimental theatre productions since the late 1980s. Between the introductory and concluding chapters, the four central chapters of the thesis analyse, in chronological order of their production, the following new dramatic works incorporating or otherwise responding to the ancient fragments: Tony Harrisonâs The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, which premiered at Delphi in 1988 but was revived in 1990 at the National Theatre; Timberlake Wertenbakerâs The Love of the Nightingale, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1989 and, Joanna Laurensâ The Three Birds (Gate Theatre, 2000); Silviu PurcaÌreteâs Les DanaiÌdes (Avignon, 1996) and, Charles Meeâs Big Love (Actor's Theatre of Louisville, 2000); Tasos Roussosâ Hypsipyle (1997) and, David Wilesâ Hy]Ï[ipyle: A Fragment (Royal Holloway University of London 1997); and Colin Teevanâs Alcmaeon in Corinth/Cock oâ the North (Live
Parkyn, Charlotte Louise
Inspiration from tatters : reconstructed ancient Greek plays on the modern stage. This thesis in Classical Performance Reception Studies asks how some fragmentary ancient Athenian dramasâa satyr play (Sophoclesâ Trackers), and several tragedies (the lost plays of Aeschylusâ trilogy about the Danaids, Sophoclesâ Tereus, and Euripidesâ Hypsipyle and Alcmaeon in Corinth) have informed some experimental theatre productions since the late 1980s. Between the introductory and concluding chapters, the four central chapters of the thesis analyse, in chronological order of their production, the following new dramatic works incorporating or otherwise responding to the ancient fragments: Tony Harrisonâs The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, which premiered at Delphi in 1988 but was revived in 1990 at the National Theatre; Timberlake Wertenbakerâs The Love of the Nightingale, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1989 and, Joanna Laurensâ The Three Birds (Gate Theatre, 2000); Silviu PurcaÌreteâs Les DanaiÌdes (Avignon, 1996) and, Charles Meeâs Big Love (Actor's Theatre of Louisville, 2000); Tasos Roussosâ Hypsipyle (1997) and, David Wilesâ Hy]Ï[ipyle: A Fragment (Royal Holloway University of London 1997); and Colin Teevanâs Alcmaeon in Corinth/Cock oâ the North (Live
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