Founding Issue: Education and Outreach
It is important to know where ancient theater is being produced, but it is equally important for those who produce it be exposed to one another's ideas. By focusing individual issues on different themes, we hope to be able to cover a wide range of important topics from several points of view. While reviews and listings will remain a constant of Didaskalia, the nature of features will vary from issue to issue. Issue 1 is devoted to the theme 'Education and Outreach', and provides examples of different means of bringing ancient theater to a wider audience and the importance of experience with the genre to those involved. Issue 2 will concern itself with moving 'Beyond Spoken Drama' and into not only the music and dance of tragedy and comedy but also other areas of performance such as pantomime and operatic adaptations. Issue 3 will look at the challenges of 'Translating for the Stage', and Issue 4 at fusions of Greek and Asian performance. Issue 5, 'Embodying Ancient Theater', will examine the logistics of producting Greek and Roman theater from acting to set design. [ Read more ]...
'Primary Tragedy'
Regina and Elizabeth Reynolds
'Comedy and Community'
Chris Pesko
'Within Reach'
Josh Cragun
Book Reviews/Previews
Review of Slater and Zimmermann, edd., Intertextualitaet in der griechisch-roemischen Komoedie
C.W. Marshall
Review of Blundell and Cummins, Auricula Meretricula (Revised Edition)
Niall Slater
Theater Reviews
Euripides' Electra in Spoleto, Italy
Caterina Barone
Trojan Women at Mt. Holyoke College, U.S.A.
Robert W. Bethune
'Adverse Conditions, a Review of Hecuba at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada'
Sallie Goetsch
Trojan Women at The University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Michaela Milde
Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale in San Diego, U.S.A.
Marianne McDonald
Agamemnon at Harvard University, U.S.A.
Patrick Rourke
Performances
U.S.A.:
- Aquila Productions Spring Tour
- Medea in Lowell, MA
- Song of the Nightingale and Mouthful of Birds in San Diego, CA
- Easy Virtue: A Reconstruction of Plautus' Cistellaria in Ann Arbor, MI
- Shifting Sands, an adaptation of the Oresteia and IA by Kathryn Martin, Fort Lewis, CO
- Open Mike for Rhapsodes at CAMWS
- Bacchae in Stony Brook, NY
- Terence's Mother-in-Law in Emory, GA
CANADA:
- Maenads in Vancouver
- Atellan Farce in Vancouver
ENGLAND:
- Seventh London Festival of Greek Drama
- Performance of Catullus 63
ITALY AND SICILY:
- Aeschylus' Oresteia in Milan
- INDA Season in Siracusa:
- Agamemnon
- Prometheus
- Acharnians
NETHERLANDS:
- Oedipus Tyrannos in Rotterdam
- Antigone in Rotterdam and Amsterdam
SOUTH AFRICA:
- International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music
- The Drama Review Student Essay Contest
- Summer Workshop on Ancient Greek Theater
- Workshop: Brechtian Performance of Myth
- English Language Videotapes of Classical Drama
- INDA Videotapes in Italian
- New Work on Comparative Tragedy