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SUMMARY:WARWICK ANCIENT DRAMA FESTIVAL: SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS KING\, 30-31 JANUARY 2020
DESCRIPTION:WARWICK ANCIENT DRAMA FESTIVAL\nSOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS KING\, 30-31 JANUARY 2020\nGENEROUSLY FUNDED BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY \n\n\n\n\nFollowing the success of the 2018 and 2019 festivals on Medea and Frogs (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/medea2018/\nhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/frogs/)\,\nthe Department of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick would like to invite teachers and students to this year’s Ancient Drama Festival\, which will focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus King.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe festival will take place on 30 and 31 January 2020\, with the 31st of January specifically dedicated to schools. The play itself will be produced by the Classics students at Warwick\, and will be performed at the newly renovated premises of the prestigious Warwick Arts Centre.\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information and a provisional programme\, please visit the play’s website:\nhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/oedipusrex/\n\n\n\n\n\nSupporting the performance\, the Department is offering a series of lectures\, discussions and seminars specifically for school students to link in with Greek\, Classical Civilisation\, Ancient History\, Drama and English syllabuses at GCSE and A Level (no previous knowledge of the subject area or play will be expected)\, and general audiences. These include:\n– Professor Eric Csapo (British Academy Global Professor of Classics at Warwick) ‘The myth of Oedipus: textual\, visual and material representations’\n– Professor Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor of Classics\, Oxford) in discussion with Dr Emmanuela Bakola on ‘Themes in Sophocles’ Oedipus: Translation and performance’\n– Professor Michael Scott (Professor of Classics at Warwick) on ‘The historical context of Oedipus King’\n– Dr Emmanuela Bakola (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature\, Warwick)\, on ‘The house\, the mountain\, the hero\, fate and responsibility: a performance analysis of Sophocles’ Oedipus King’\n– Dr David Fearn (Reader in Greek Language and Literature\, Warwick) on ‘The Sophoclean hero and the chorus’ (seminar)\n– Mr Kirk Hastings (Music composer and Choir leader)\, Participatory workshop based on the choral songs & music composition of Oedipus King.\n\n\n\n\n\nMore specifically:\n\n\n\n\n\nThe performance of the 30th of January (7.30 pm) will be preceded by a talk and discussion on Oedipus by Professor Oliver Taplin and Dr Emmanuela Bakola\, with Q &A (at 6.30pm). Tickets for the Thursday performance and talk are £6\, and will be soon available for booking at the Warwick Arts Centre website.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 31st of January event (the ‘Schools day’) is FREE for teachers and pupils\, but schools are asked to organise their own transportation and lunch. The (provisional) programme can be found here:\nhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/oedipusrex\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you wish to book your pupils for this day\, please email our Research and Outreach Assistant\, Ms Emmy Stavropoulou (e.stavropoulou@warwick.ac.uk ) stating the (approximate) number of participants and the talk/workshop options you wish to attend by 8 January 2019. For access & parking information and other enquiries please also email Ms Stavropoulou.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the last two years\, the Schools Day became fully booked very quickly\, and we operated a waiting list. If the event is fully booked or an evening event is preferable\, schools can *also* book for the performance of the 30th of January (7.30 pm)\, which will be preceded by a talk and discussion on Oedipus by Professor Emeritus Oliver Taplin and Dr Emmanuela Bakola (at 6.30pm) with Q & A. Tickets for the Thursday performance and discussion are £6\, and will be soon available for booking at the Warwick Arts Centre website.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hope to see as many of you as possible there.
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SUMMARY:Watford Grammar School for Girls Trojan Women production
DESCRIPTION:Watford Grammar School for Girls Trojan Women production\n  \nThe WGGS Drama and Classics Departments are proud to be performing Euripides’ Trojan Women as our school production this year.\n  \n\n\n  \nThe play is set in a refugee camp on outskirts of Troy in the aftermath of the Trojan War. With all the men dead\, the women are abandoned and wait to be enslaved by the Greek army. Follow the journey of the women as they say their last goodbyes to their home and family in a captivating tale of love and loss.\n  \nThe play will be held on the 30th and 31st of January in the Main Hall at 7pm. Adult tickets are £5 each\, while students/concessions tickets are £3 each.  All proceeds from tickets will go towards future school productions. Refreshments will be served raising money for charity and the bar will also be open for drinks. Please email Ms H Long at h.long@watfordgirls.herts.sch.uk if you would like to purchase tickets.
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