Warwick University Classics Drama Festival for Schools – 24th January 2017

The students and staff at the University of Warwick Department of Classics and Ancient History would like to invite teachers and students to our annual ancient drama festival for schools on Tuesday 24^th January 2017. 

The day will focus around a special schools’ performance of Sophocles’ Antigone, directed by Ed Villers. The play will be produced by the Classics students at Warwick (translated into English by Clive Letchford, Teaching Fellow in the department), and will be performed in the Main Theatre of Warwick University’s prestigious Arts Centre.

Supporting the performance, the Department is offering a series of lectures and seminars specifically for school students 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:

– Dr Michael Scott (Associate Professor of Classics), on burial practices and the cult of the dead in Antigone and in Greek tragedy.

– Dr David Fearn (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature), on chorus and character in Sophocles.

– Dr Emmanuela Bakola (Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature), on space and the female in Greek theatre and in Sophocles’ Antigone.

– Mr Clive Letchford (Teaching Fellow in Greek and Latin), on translating Antigone in the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

– Ms Emmy Stavropoulou (Doctoral student in Greek Literature & Outreach Assistant), on the ‘Ode to Man’ in Sophocles’ Antigone(Ant. 332-83).

– Mr Ed Villers (Play Director), on staging Sophocles’ Antigone.

The day will begin at 11am and finish at 5pm. 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 an indication of your attendance cand rough numbers of students by 15 December 2016 to Emmy Stavropoulou, e.stavropoulou@warwick.ac.uk

Last year, we hosted approximately 560 school students and teachers for our drama festival which focused on Aristophanes’Lysistrata. A short video giving a flavour of the whole festival in previous years, as well as more information on the range of outreach activities organised by the Warwick Department of Classics, can be found here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach

There will also be a public performance of the play on Monday 23^rd January 2017 at the Warwick Arts Centre main theatre stage at 7pm. Tickets are £5 + £1 booking fee and are available to book on the Arts Centre website.