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GREEK DRAMA Theatre A fter thens Reception and Revision of Ancient Greek Drama Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Department of Classics, and the Classical Traditions Initiative WWW . SAWYERSEMINAR . NORTHWESTERN . EDU John Evans Alumni Center 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston Northwestern University Northwestern University Classical Traditions Initiative and the Department of Classics Present An ANDREW W. MELLON SAWYER SEMINAR SERIES event FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010 9 - 10:30am: Keynote lecture Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London Greek Drama and the Modernist Self 11am - 1:30pm: Dancing Greek Tragedies Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan Greek Drama and Modern Dance in the 1930s Susan Manning, Northwestern University Dancing Modern Desires 3 - 5:30pm: Intellectual Tragedy Niall Slater, Emory University Iphigenia Amongst the Ivies, 1915 Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship: Edith Hamilton’s Americanization of Greek Tragedy 5:30 - 7pm: Dinner reception 7 - 9:30 pm: Showing of Brian de Palma’s Dionysus in 69 SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2010 10am - 12:30pm: Professional Tragedy Karelisa Hartigan, University of Florida America Rediscovers Greek Tragedy Ancient Plays on the Commercial Stage: 1900-1970 Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan Eugene O’Neill’s Quest for Greek Tragedy 1:30 - 4pm: Euripides in the 1960s Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University Metaphor and Modernity: Mid-Century Versions of Euripides Shawn Sides, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, Austin, Texas Dionysus in 69 in 09 Response by Linda Gates, Northwestern University For more information please visit www. sawyerseminar.northwestern.edu or contact Kathryn Bosher [email protected] or Amanda Wrigley [email protected]. Top left: Lillah McCarthy as Hecuba in The Trojan Women, photograph by Underwood and Underwood, New York, 1915. Top right: Iphigenia among the Taurians, 1915. In the background: Scenes from Dionysus in 69 directed by Richard Schechner, photographed by Max Waldman
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Reception and Revision of Ancient Greek DramaSponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Department of Classics, and the Classical Traditions Initiative
www. sawyer s em inar .northwe s t e rn . e du
John Evans Alumni Cent er1800 Sher idan R oad, Evanst on
Nor t hwest er n University
Northwestern University Classical Traditions Initiative and the Department of Classics Present
An ANDREW W. MELLON SAWYER SEMINAR SERIES event
Friday, January 22, 20109 - 10:30am: Keynote lecture Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Greek Drama and the Modernist Self 11am - 1:30pm: Dancing Greek Tragedies
Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan
Greek Drama and Modern Dance in the 1930s
Susan Manning, Northwestern University
Dancing Modern Desires
3 - 5:30pm: Intellectual Tragedy
Niall Slater, Emory University
Iphigenia Amongst the Ivies, 1915
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship: Edith Hamilton’s Americanization of Greek Tragedy
5:30 - 7pm: Dinner reception
7 - 9:30 pm: Showing of Brian de Palma’s Dionysus in 69
Saturday, January 23, 201010am - 12:30pm: Professional Tragedy
Karelisa Hartigan, University of Florida
America Rediscovers Greek Tragedy Ancient Plays on the Commercial Stage: 1900-1970
Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan Eugene O’Neill’s Quest for Greek Tragedy
1:30 - 4pm: Euripides in the 1960s
Thomas Jenkins, Trinity University Metaphor and Modernity: Mid-Century Versions of Euripides
Shawn Sides, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, Austin, Texas
Dionysus in 69 in 09
Response by Linda Gates, Northwestern University
For more information please visit www. sawyerseminar.northwestern.edu or contact Kathryn Bosher [email protected] or Amanda Wrigley [email protected].
Top left: Lillah McCarthy as Hecuba in The Trojan Women, photograph by Underwood and Underwood, New York, 1915. Top right: Iphigenia among the Taurians, 1915. In the background: Scenes from Dionysus in 69 directed by Richard Schechner, photographed by Max Waldman
