Warwick University Classics Department’s Ancient Drama Day for Schools

Warwick University Classics Department’s Ancient Drama Day for Schools – 7th February 2014.

The students and staff at the University of Warwick Department of Classics would like to invite teachers and students to our ancient drama schools’ day on Friday 7th February 2014.

The day will focus around a special schools’ performance of Plautus’ Pseudolus, produced and directed by the Classics students at Warwick.

Supporting the performance, we are organising a series of lectures, seminars and workshops specifically for local schools to link in with Latin, Greek, Classical Civilisation, Ancient History, Drama and English syllabuses at GCSE and AS/A2 (no previous knowledge of the subject area or play will be expected). These include:

1. a lecture on the context of performance of ancient drama in Greece and Rome by one of the Warwick Classics department,
2. a workshop with the cast on the processes of staging and performing the play
3. a seminar led by Warwick department staff on ancient drama, for which some preliminary readings will be made available in advance for students
4. a short session with students and staff on university undergraduate life.
5. the performance itself.

The day will begin at 10am and finish c. 4.30pm. Detailed timings will be announced in due course. There will be no cost for the event, but attendees are asked to organise their own transportation and lunch (there are many venues on campus from which to purchase food).

Can I please ask you to give me an indication of your attendance + rough numbers of students by 15th November 2013 to Dr Michael Scott, m.c.scott@warwick.ac.uk.

Best wishes and thanks
Michael