Due to the delayed release of this issue, some of the events in the Listings sections have already taken place. We include them to provide the reader with a better sense of what is happening in ancient theater around the world.
Euripides' Ion
Translated by David Lan
Directed by Nicholas Wright
Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company London
Performances 7:15 and 2:00 PM Weekdays
Ends Thursday 9 March
The Pit
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
Box Office: (0171) 638 8891
Book Early!
Sophocles' Antigone
Translated and Directed by David Stuttard
Performed by the Actors of Dionysus
Chelsea Centre Theatre
Worlds End Place
Kings Road
London SW10
(Sloane Square Tube)
Monday 14th November-Saturday 10th December
Performances at 8 PM
Tickets:
Mon-Thur UK7.50, UK5.50 concessions
Fri, Sat all seats UK8.50
Box office: (071) 352 1967
To see a review of this production, click here.
Production Project:
Staging the Oresteia
Directed by Leslie du S. Read
December 5, 6, 7
7:00 PM
Roborough Studio,
University of Exeter
Euripides' Ion: The Lost Boy Found
In a new translation by Kenneth McLeish
Directed by Nick Philippou
Performed by the Actors Touring Company
In conjunction with Theatre Piramatiki Sikini tis Technis
The Lyric Studio Theatre
King Street
Hammersmith
London W6 0QL
Tuesday 29 November-Saturday 10 December
8 PM
(Mid-week mats 2:30 PM; Saturday mats 4:30 PM)
Four performances in Modern Greek by Theatre Piramatiki
December 6-8
For reservations call (081) 741 2311
To see a review of this production, click here.
Chloe Productions presents:
Lucian's Comic Sketches
Newly Adapted for Performance
December 12-14 and 16
7:00 PM
Admission UK2.00
Common Room (Room 609)
Institute of Classical Studies
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY
Tickets available at the ICS from Room 609 at coffee or tea
For further information please contact:
Russell Shone
c/o Chloe Productions
Institute of Classical Studies
CAMBRIDGE GREEK PLAY
Aristophanes' Birds
in the original Greek
Directed by Dictynna Hood
Cambridge Corn Exchange
Wheeler Street
Cambridge CB2 3QE
February 22-25
2:30 and 8:00 PM
Tickets UK12 and UK9; UK6 unwaged and anyone in full-time education. School parties, one free seat in ten
For bookings call (0223) 357851
or fax (0223) 321026
For the history of the Cambridge Greek Play, click here.
PRODUCTIONS AT THE EIGHTH LONDON FESTIVAL OF GREEK DRAMA
Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
in English Translation
Presented by the University College London Classical Society
Bloomsbury Theatre
15 Gordon Street
London WC1H 0AH
Wed 8 March-Fri 10 March 1:30 and 7:30 PM
Saturday 11 March 7:30 PM
Tickets UK4.50; UK3.00 children and concessions
Available from the Bloomsbury Theatre
Tel. (0171) 388 8822
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
in the original Greek
Presented by the Department of Classics,
King's College London
New Theatre
King's College
Strand
London WC2R 2LS Wed. 15 and Fri. 17 March 2:30 and 7:30 PM
Thurs. 16 and Sat. 18 March 7:30 PM
Tickets UK4.00 (price includes programme)
Available from the Business Manager
Department of Classics
King's College
24-hour direct line: (0171) 873 2399
Please make cheques payable to 'King's College Greek Play'
Euripides' Cyclops
Presented by Chloe Productions
Theatre Museum
Russell St.
Covent Garden
London WC2E 7PA
Friday 24 March at 5:30 PM
Sat. 25 and Sun. 26 March at 2:30 and 5:30 PM
Tickets UK4.00
Available from the Box Office, Theatre Museum
Tel. (0171) 836 2330
.Agora nell' Agora by Umberto Albini
Directed by Enrico Campanati
8-14 January, 1995
Teatro della Tosse in Sant' Agostino
Piazza Negri 4
16123 Genova
Italy
Tel. +39-10-2470793
Seneca's Fedra
Translated into Italian by Eduardo Sanguineti
Directed by Tonino Conte
2-18 February, 1995
Teatro della Tosse in Sant' Agostino
Piazza Negri 4
16123 Genova
Italy
Tel. +39-10-2470793
Apuleius' L'asino d'oro
Adapted by ida Omboni and Paolo Poli
Directed by Paolo Poli
28 March-15 April, 1995
Teatro della Tosse in Sant' Agostino
Piazza Negri 4
16123 Genova
Italy
Tel. +39-10-2470793
Homer's Iliad in five acts
Company: Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Director: Peter Oosthoek.
Translation and adaptation: Gerard Koolschijn.
Amsterdam, TTA,
7 November - 23 December 1994 For information, please contact:
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Phone: *31 20 5237800
Fax *31 20 6268526
Aeschylus' Perzen
Company: Theatergroep Hollandia.
Directors: Johan Simons & Paul Koek.
Translation: Herman Altena.
Autosloperij Jan Smit
Westzaan
17 November - 23 December 1994.
For information, please contact:
Theatergroep Hollandia
Phone: *31 75 310231
Fax *31 75 701906
Medea
Coproduction of ZID Theater Amsterdam and Bitef Teatar Belgrado
With Sonja Vukicevic as Medea
Director: Ivana Vujic
Amsterdam, Melkweg
3 and 4 December 1994
Phone: *31 20 6241777
Andromache
Jean Racine
Director: Mark Timmer
Translation: Laurens Spoor
Music: Vera Vingerhoeds
Amsterdam, De Engelenbak
14 December - 14 January
Phone: *31 20 6266866
De Troje trilogie
By Koos Terpstra
Theater van het Oosten, Arnhem
Director: Koos Terpstra
Until 3 February in many Dutch theatres
Amsterdam, Frascati
19-30 December
Phone: *31 20 6266866
De thuiskomst van Odysseus
Based on Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d' Ulysse in Patria
Written and perfomed by Frank Groothof
With the Saxofoonkwartet 'Sax & Plus'
Familyproduction
Until 23 April in many Dutch theatres.
Information about these productions can also be obtained from
Herman Altena
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Klassiek Seminarium
Oude Turfmarkt 129
1012 GC Amsterdam
Phone: *31 20 5252571
Fax: *31 20 5252544