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 (Trent)
John Davidson (Victoria University Wellington)
Margaret Mezzabotta (Cape Town)
Richard Beacham (Warwick)
Pat Easterling (Cambridge)
Gary Decker (Michigan)

VOL. 2 ISSUE 2-AUTUMN 1995

(01) LIST OF CONTENTS

(02) EDITORIAL: THE CRUELEST MONTH

(03) FEATURES: ANCIENT STAGECRAFT

• Sallie Goetsch, 'And What about Costume?'
• Philip Neuman, The Aulos and Drama: A Performer's Viewpoint
• Jonathan Shay, 'The Birth of Tragedy--out of the Needs of Democracy'

(04) LISTINGS

PERFORMANCES:

AUSTRALIA:

• Plautus' Casina at the University of Western Australia

ENGLAND:

• Euripides' Women of Troy at the Royal National Theatre
• Rossini's Ermione at the Glyndebourne Festival

GREECE:

• Athens Festival 1995
• Epidavros Festival 1995
• Aristophanes Birds in Thessaloniki

ITALY:

• Menander's Il misantropo at Segesta
• Seneca's Agamemnone at Segesta

NETHERLANDS:

• De thuiskomst van Odysseus
• Euripides' Hekabe in Rotterdam
• Hugo Claus' Phaedra in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• De Branding's Oidipous in Amsterdam
• Pe Hawinkels' Medea in Amsterdam
• Danser's Studio Odyssey in Rotterdam

UNITED STATES:

• Philoctetes in Vietnam in Ann Arbor, MI
• Timberlake Wertenbaker's Hecuba in San Francisco, CA
• Euripides' Bacchae at Alfred University, NY
• Mary-Kay Gamel's Effie and the Barbarians in Santa Cruz, CA
• Euripides' Women of Troy at the University of Kansas
• Eric Overmeyer's Amphitryon: One God's Wild Night on the Town in New York, NY
• Aristophanes' Lysistrata in Dayton, OH
• Utah Classical Greek Theater Festival Tour: Euripides' Bacchae

CONFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

• New Journal on the Web
• Open Mike for Rhapsodes
• Terence's Brothers on Video
• Greek Music CD
• One-Day Conference at Reading
• Aulos Demonstration
• Summer Theatre Workshop
• Hydra Workshop Seeks Classics Professor
• One-Day Symposium in NYC
• INDA Conference

(05) THEATER REVIEWS

• Arvaniti, Katerina, Report on the 1994 Festival at Epidavros
• Carlile, Theo, Review of Aeschylus' Suppliants
• Carlile, Theo, Review of National Theatre Trojan Women
• Four Student Reviews of the Cambridge Greek Play
• Foley, Helene, Review of Iphigeneia and Other Daughters
• Goetsch, Sallie, Review of Hekabe in Rotterdam
• Mezzabotta, Margaret, Review of Antigone in Cape Town
• Pallen, Thomas, Review of 1994 season at Siracusa, Sicily
• Ruden, Sarah, Review of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Cape Town

(06) BOOK P/REVIEWS

• Ewans, Michael, Preview of Everyman Oresteia
• Jones, Richard, Review of Macintosh's Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama
• Slater, Niall, Review of Mastronarde's commentary on Phoenissae

(07) GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

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