DIDASKALIA: ANCIENT THEATER TODAY

ISSN 1321-4853

Editorial Board (as of this issue):

Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
Caterina Barone (Padova)
Marianne McDonald (UC San Diego)
C.W. Marshall (Concordia-Montreal)
John Davidson (Victoria University Wellington)
Margaret Mezzabotta (Cape Town)
Richard Beacham (Warwick)
Gary Decker (Michigan)
Pat Easterling (Cambridge)

VOL. 2 ISSUE 1-FEBRUARY 1995

(01) LIST OF CONTENTS

(02) EDITORIAL: DEADLINES MATTER

(03) FEATURES: NEW ANCIENT THEATER

• Chedgzoy, Davidson, Montserrat, and Stevenson, 'POXY POXY 413: A Conversation between Collaborators on the translation of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 413'
• Douglas, Dennis, and Mason, Lisa 'Shoestring's Birds: A Sequel to Aristophanes'
• Mendeloff, Kate, 'The Making of Orpheus and Eurydice: A Musical Odyssey for Young People'
• Withers, Paul, 'Writing Greek Tragedies'

(04) FOLLOW-UP

(05) LISTINGS

PERFORMANCES:

CANADA:

• Antigone in Toronto, Ontario
• The Frogs and The Assemblywomen in Toronto, Ontario

U.S.A:

• Philoctetes in Vietnam in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Hecuba in San Francisco, California
• Bacchae in Alfred, New York
• Birds in Wellesley, Massachussets
• Lysistrata in Dayton, Ohio
• Utah Festival 1995-96 Tour of Bacchae

ENGLAND:

• RSC Ion in London
• Birds in Cambridge
• Thesmophoriazusae in London
• Lysistrata in London
• Cyclops in London
• Andromache in Newcastle
• Birds and Medea on tour
• Orpheus in the Underworld in Reading

ITALY:

• Edipo Re and Edipo a Colono on tour
• Ecuba on tour

NETHERLANDS:

• De thuiskomst van Odysseus, written and perfomed by Frank Groothof
• Hekabe by the RO-theater Rotterdam

SOUTH AFRICA:

• Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Cape Town

CONFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

• Lectures at the London Festival of Greek Drama
• Drama-Related Lectures at the 1995 Annual General Meeting of the Classical Association
• Interim Report: Multi-Partner Project in Athens
• Open Mike for Rhapsodes at CAMWS
• Dramatic Lectures in the CA Tape Library
• Conference: 'Nineteenth-Century Appropriations of Ancient Greece in Britain'
• Aulos Demonstration at Oxford
• Summer Theatre Workshop on Hydra
• Hydra Workshop Seeks Classicist

(06) THEATER REVIEWS

• Barone, Caterina, Grillparzer's Medea in Padova, Italy
• Buck, Dana D., Aristophanes' Wasps and Sophocles' Philoctetes in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
• Gamel, Mary-Kay, Casina and Samia in Malibu, California, U.S.A.
• Goetsch, Sallie, joint review of ATC and RSC productions of Ion, Cambridge and London, England
• Marshall, C.W., Euripides' Medea in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Willetts, Sue, Scenes from Lucian's Sketches in London, England

(07) BOOK P/REVIEWS

• Decker, Gary, Review of Izenour's Roofed Theaters
• Goetsch, Sallie, Review of Neiiendam's Art of Acting in Classical Antiquity
• Withers, Paul, Review of McKay's Mask Making

(08) GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

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