DIDASKALIA: ANCIENT THEATER TODAY

ISSN 1321-4853

• Sallie Goetsch (Founding Editor)

• Oliver Taplin (Consultant)

• Peter Toohey (Contributing Editor)

VOL. 1 ISSUE 5 - DECEMBER 1994

LIST OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL: SPINNING A WEB TO WARWICK

FEATURES: EMBODYING ANCIENT THEATER

• Conte, Bill, 'A Site-Specific Prometheus'

• Didak, Stefan, and Goetsch, Sallie, 'Animating Ancient Theater Through Computer Graphics: A Conversation'

• Hood, Dictynna, 'Transcending the Barriers--The Cambridge Greek Play'

• Humphrey, Claire, 'Use of the Chorus in the Inner Stage Production of MacEwen's The Trojan Women'

• van Opstall , Emilie M., "Aeschylus' Persians when the Ink is Still Wet'

LISTINGS

PERFORMANCES:

• CANADA:

  • Medea in Vancouver, BC

  • Clouds in Toronto, Ontario

  • Antigone in Toronto, Ontario

  • The Frogs and The Assemblywomen in Toronto, Ontario

  • The Trojan Women in Toronto, Ontario

• U.S.A.:

  • Robert Auletta's The Oresteia in Boston, MA

• ENGLAND:

  • RSC Ion in London

  • ATC Ion in London

  • Antigone in Chelsea

  • Oresteia in Exeter

  • Lucian's Comic Sketches in London

  • Birds in Cambridge

  • Thesmophoriazusae in London

  • Lysistrata in London

  • Cyclops in London

• ITALY:

  • Agora nell' Agora by Umberto Albini in Genova

  • Seneca's Fedra in Genova

  • Apuleius' L'asino d'oro in Genova

• NETHERLANDS:

  • Homer's Iliad in Five Acts, Amsterdam

  • Perzen in Westzaan

  • Medea in Amsterdam

  • Racine's Andromaque in Amsterdam

  • De Troje trilogie by Koos Terpstra

  • De thuiskomst van Odysseus, written and perfomed by Frank Groothof

CONFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

• Call for papers: 'Dressing, Undressing, and Cross-Dressing in Classical Antiquity'

• Call for papers: Colloquium on Ideology and Poetic Form: Greek Comedy

• Call for participants: Multi-Partner Project on Greek Drama in Europe

• Call for submissions: TWO LINES: the Stanford Translation Journal

• Position available: UC San Diego Department of Theatre

• Lectures at the London Festival of Greek Drama

• Conference: 'Researching Drama in Higher Education'

• Conference: 'Nineteenth-Century Appropriations of Ancient Greece in Britain'

• New Design Package Proposed

• New Journal of Classical Drama

• Summer Theatre Workshop

THEATER REVIEWS

• Bolton, M.C., Sophocles' Women of Trachis in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Goetsch, Sallie, Sophocles' Antigone in Chelsea (London), England

• Keen, Antony, Aeschylus' Oresteia in Edinburgh, Scotland

• Keen, Antony, Greek Plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

• Keen, Antony, Aristophanes' Lysistrata in Manchester, England

• Kent, Assunta, Oh Antigone in Gorham, Maine, U.S.A.

• Krauss, Kenneth, Euripides' Andromaque in Avignon, France

• McDonald, Marianne, Casina and Samia in Malibu, California, U.S.A.

• McDonald, Marianne, Scenes from Antigone and Lysistrata in San Diego, California, U.S.A.

• Mendeloff, Kate, Sophocles' Philoctetes in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

• Mezzabotta, Margaret, Euripides' Medea in Cape Town, South Africa

• Scolnicov, Hanna, A One-Man Oresteia in Israel

• Slater, Niall W., Euripides' Ion in Cambridge, England

• Van Zyl Smit, Betine, Euripides' Medea in Cape Town, South Africa

BOOK P/REVIEWS

• Bakewell, Geoffrey, Review of Meier, Political Art of Greek Tragedy

• Beeman, William O., Review of West, Ancient Greek Music

• Marshall, C.W., Review of Aristophanes and Menander: New Comedy and Cornford's The Origins of Attic Comedy (with a new introduction by Jeffrey Henderson)

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Didaskalia Volume 1 Issue 5 - December 1994 / edited by Sallie Goetsch and Peter Toohey / University of Warwick / ISSN 1321-4853