LISTINGS: PERFORMANCES: EUROPE AND THE UK

GREECE

ENGLAND

Euripides Troades
Performed entirely in Greek in an open-air theater

July 1-2 and 4-7
3:00 and 8:30 PM

Bradfield College
The Close
Bradfield
ENGLAND

Box office: (0734) 744208

ITALY

XXXIII SEASON OF CLASSICAL PRODUCTIONS
IN THE GREEK THEATER AT SYRACUSE
Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico
May 12-Jume 19, 1994

Aeschylus' Agamemnon
translated by Umberto Albini
directed by Roberto De Simone

Aeschylus' Prometheus
directed by Antonio Calenda

Aristophanes' Acharnians
directed by Egisto Marcucci

Performances at 6:30/7:00 PM and 10:00 AM Tickets L.15,000-60,000

(All productions in Italian)
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For details contact:
C. Gile
Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico
Corso Matteotti, 29
96100 Siracusa
Sicily
(0931) 67415
Fax: (0931) 21424

For tickets call: 0931/463909
Fax: 0931/69117

Please note that accomodations in and around Syracuse are very
crowded in May and June, and make your reservations accordingly.

There will be a seminar about the performances May 31-June 1.

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VII SEASON OF CLASSICAL PRODUCTIONS
IN THE GREEK THEATER AT SEGESTA
Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico

July 3-August 14
Performances at 19:15

Plautus' Curculius
Directed by Giancarlo Sammartano

Plautus' Truculentus
Directed by Giancarlo Sammartano

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July 27-August 8
Performances at 18:30

F. Hoelderlin's Empedocles
Directed by Roberto Gucciardini

For details contact:
C. Gile
Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico
Corso Matteotti, 29
96100 Siracusa
Sicily
(0931) 67415
Fax: (0931) 21424

For tickets call: 0931/463909
Fax: 0931/69117

NETHERLANDS

Aeschylus' Persians
Transl.: Evert Straat

Directed by Hans Croiset & Toer van Schayk.
Het Nationale Toneel

April 28 - June 4
Den Haag, Theater aan het Spui
Tel. +31 (70) 3465280; +31 (70) 3565363
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The Antigone production by the RO-Theater, announced in
Didaskalia 1.1, has been cancelled. The director had based her
interpretation of the play on the horrors of the Bosnian war.
According to a newspaper report, there were differing opinions
about her approach, which eventually made her decide to withdraw.
The direction was taken over by someone else, but apparently it
was no longer possible to raise the production to an acceptable
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Menander's Dyskolos

Universitaet Hamburg

May 11
Amsterdam, Universiteitstheater

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Ifigeneia koningskind (Iphigeneia, Royal Child) For children.
By Pauline Mol, adapted from Euripides

Directed by Carla Huismans
Cheiroon

May 28, 29.
Amsterdam, Muiderpoorttheater
Tel. +31 (20) 6681313

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Philoktetes-variations
by John Jesurun, based on Andre Gide, Heiner Muller Directed by
Jan Ritsema

Produced by Kaaitheater Brussels, Hebbel-theater Berlin, Felix
Meritis Amsterdam, Holland Festival 1994).

June 15-21
Amsterdam, VCC De Brakke Grond
Tel. +31 (20) 6211211

This production was shown in Bruxelles, Belgium. The project was
conceived by Jan Ritsema and the American actor Ron Vawter
(Wooster Group), who played the leading part until his death in
April this year.

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The Death of Oedipus
An opera by Qu Xiaosong, based on Sophocles' Oedipus at
Colonus (Coproduction of Nieuw Ensemble/Holland
Festival/Radio 4)

Directed by Mark Timmer
Musical director: Ed Spanjaard
Nieuw Ensemble and soloists

June 24-26
Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek-TA Theater
Tel. +31 (20) 6211211

>From the program: "The composer is drawn ... to what he feels is
the essence of the myth: the Buddhist view that man can only attain
'freedom' by accepting his existence as it is. In Qu Xiaosong's
music, a fertile confrontation takes place between contemporary
Western music and age-old Asian traditions. Qu is a master of the
tense silence."

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Later this year:
Homer's Iliad in five acts. September, Amsterdam Aischylos'
Persians, November/December, on location.

More information about these productions will be given in future
issues of Didaskalia, or can be obtained from

Herman Altena
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Klassiek Seminarium
Oude Turfmarkt 129
1012 GC Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 5252571
Fax: +31 20 5252544

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