DIDASKALIA: ANCIENT THEATER TODAY

ISSN 1321-4853

• Sallie Goetsch (Founding Editor)

• Oliver Taplin (Consultant)

• Ian Worthington and Peter Toohey (Publishers and Contributing Editors)

VOL. 1 ISSUE 3 - August 1994

LIST OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

FEATURES: TRANSLATING FOR THE STAGE

• Allen, Christopher, 'Theatre and Translation: English translations of Antigone'

• Davis, Richard E., 'Creating Clytemnestra

• Goetsch, Sallie, 'Translating Philoctetes--with help from the actors'

• Montenegro, Ricardo, 'Os Sete Contra Tebas'

• Ruden, Sarah, 'Translating Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Problems, Prospects, Prominently Pronged Protagonists'

LISTINGS

PERFORMANCES:

CANADA:

• Orestes in Toronto, Ontario

U.S.A.:

• Agamemnon in Portland, Oregon

• Casina and Samia in Malibu, California

GREECE:

Athens Festival 1994:

• Theatrical Monologue Dramatized narration inspired by the life of the Byzantine Empress Theodora

• Aristophanes' Plutus

• Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

Epidavros Festival 1994:

• Sophocles' Maidens of Trachis

• Aristophanes' Plutus

• Aristophanes' Birds

• Aristophanes' Birds (2)

• Aristophanes' Lysistrata

ENGLAND:

• Lysistrata in Manchester

NETHERLANDS:

• Oresteia in Rotterdam

• Iliad in Amsterdam

• Persians in Noordholland

SCOTLAND

• Oresteia at Edinburgh Festival

• Agamemnon at Edinburgh Fringe

• Another Antigone at Edinburgh Fringe

• Antigone at Edinburgh Fringe

• Antigoni at Edinburgh Fringe

• Ben Hur at Edinburgh Fringe

• Birds at Edinburgh Fringe

• Libation Bearers at Edinburgh Fringe

• Lysistrata--the New One at Edinburgh Fringe

• Medea at Edinburgh Fringe

• Meeting Cassandra at Edinburgh Fringe

• Pericles and I at Edinburgh Fringe The Women of Troy at Edinburgh Fringe

AUSTRALIA:

• Clouds in Crawley, Western Australia

CONFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

• Conference at Texas A&M: 'How is it Played?' Call for papers on stage translation

• Hydra Workshop seeks US/UK/Canada colleges for accreditation

THEATER REVIEWS

• Barone, Caterina, Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris in Perugia, Italy

• Barone, Caterina, XXXIII Cycle of Classical Performances at Syracuse, Sicily

• Buck, Dana D., Ben Cohen's Orpheus and Eurydice in Ann Arbor, MI

• Keen, Antony G., Caryl Churchill's Thyestes in Manchester, UK

• McDonald, Marianne, Manuel Fernandes' Hippolyta in San Diego, CA

• McDonald, Marianne, Euripides' Medea in New York City

• McDonald, Marianne, Debbie Falb's Impossible Things Before Breakfast (an adaptation of Euripides' Medea) in Telluride, Colorado

• Mezzabotta, Margaret, 'Frolicking Frogs Rap in Capetown'

BOOK P/REVIEWS

• Goetsch, Sallie, Review of Ley's A Short Introduction to Greek Theater

• Walsh, Martin, Review of Rudlin Commedia dell' Arte: An Actor's Handbook

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Didaskalia Volume 1 Issue 3 - August 1994 / edited by Sallie Goetsch and Peter Toohey / University of Warwick / ISSN 1321-4853