A podcast with Oliver Taplin and Giovanna Di Martino This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor Oxford) and Dr Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) to discuss Sicily's privileged relationship with ancient Greek drama. They take as their starting point images relating to the 1914 production of Aeschylus' A ... Show More
Apr 2024
Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe: Italy and Community Theatre
A podcast with Marco Martinelli Playwright and theatre director Marco Martinelli (co-founder of Teatro delle Albe) discusses his community-theatre projects, past and future, in Italy, France, and London, involving amateur actors, school children, and young adults, using Aristopha ... Show More
44m 21s
Sep 2024
Antigone through a digital lens, with Creation Theatre
Creation Theatre's Artistic Director Dr Helen Eastman talks about digital theatre, Creation's award-winning approach to digital work, and how they have used it both to interpret and to intervene in Sophocles' ancient tragedy. Creation Theatre's digital production of Antigone prem ... Show More
45m 29s
Apr 2024
Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe: Italy and Community Theatre
A podcast episode with Marco Martinelli Playwright and theatre director Marco Martinelli (co-founder of Teatro delle Albe) discusses his community-theatre projects, past and future, in Italy, France, and London, involving amateur actors, school children, and young adults, using A ... Show More
44m 21s
Nov 2024
The Moth Podcast: The Play’s The Thing
On this episode, stories about the theater, performing, and life on the stage. This episode was hosted by Marc Sollinger. Storytellers Rose L finds that playing Jesus in her school’s passion play is trickier than one might expect.Honor Finnegan tries out for the musical, Annie. P ... Show More
15m 54s
Aug 2024
Bitesize Episode 85 - From Stage to Real Life: Matt’s Immersive Theatre Adventure
📝 Get FREE Episode Worksheet 👄 Improve Your Pronunciation In this episode, Charlie reunites with his long-time friend Matthew, to discuss his immersive theatre experience in London. Matt attended "Burnt City," an event that combines theatre with audience interaction. They explo ... Show More
18m 41s
May 2024
Among the Ancients II: Plato
Plato’s Symposium, his philosophical dialogue on love, or eros, was probably written around 380 BCE, but it’s set in 416, during the uneasy truce between Athens and Sparta in the middle of the Peloponnesian War. A symposium was a drinking party, though Socrates and his friends, h ... Show More
12m 16s
Jul 2022
Classics Faculty Ancient Drama Prize 2022
Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Senior Research Fellow in Classics Education, chats with the winners of the faculty's exciting new performance competition for young people from across the UK. In 2021 the Faculty of Classics, in partnership with the Archive of Performances of Greek and R ... Show More
27m 9s
Jan 2021
Khalil Habib, Peter Wood, Matthew Gaetano, & Matthew Hoenig
TOPICS: Nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism, a response to the 1619 Project, Pico's Oration, and a Hillsdale alum digging for fossils<br><br>Host Scot Bertram talks with Khalil Habib, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale, to define nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism. Peter Wood, ... Show More
50m 26s