University of London Festival of Greek Drama 2009


Workshops

Last year, we ran a series of workshops in conjunction with the UCL Bloomsbury theatre's Education Department. And we are pleased to announce that we will be holding another series of workshops there, this year on the theme of Euripides' Trojan Women.

UCL BLOOMSBURY THEATRE’S EDUCATION DEPT HOST A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES BASED ON EURIPIDES’S THE TROJAN WOMEN.   

A series of practical workshop sessions and lectures on the play led by experienced practitioners reveal how Euripides’s concerns are as relevant now as they were 2,000 years ago. In conjunction with our Education dept. 

MONDAY 26TH & FRIDAY 3OTH JANUARY
Workshop/lecture
10am-1pm
Chris Vervain
 ‘Mask and chorus in Ancient Greek Theatre’
 
WEDNESDAY 11TH FEBRUARY
Workshop
1:30pm- 4:00pm
Rebecca Reed 
'Text & Performance Studies: Exploration of Edexcel A2 paper Section A unit 6'
       
THURSDAY 5TH MARCH
Workshop/lecture
1:30pm – 4:00pm                                       
Thiasos Theatre Company – Yana Zarifi      
'Chorus Matters'              

THURSDAY 19TH MARCH
Workshop/lecture
12pm – 3:30pm
Professor Edith Hall (Royal Holloway)
'Greek tragedy'
Thiasos Theatre Company – Yana Zarifi      
'Chorus Matters' 

All events at the studio, UCL Bloomsbury Theatre Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH          

Tickets for all workshops/lectures: £5, £4 (schools/concs) 
Email enquires to:rebecca@thebloomsbury.com/020 7679 2914  

All workshops  have close links to GCE Edexcel Drama & Theatre Studies spec unit 6 and AS Classics

What's On


26th January

Workshop and lecture on 'Mask and Chorus in Ancient Greek Theatre' by Chris Vervain

30th January

Workshop and lecture on 'Mask and Chorus in Ancient Greek Theatre' by Chris Vervain

9th - 13th February

University College London's production of Aristophanes' Frogs

11th February

Workshop on 'Text & Performance Studies: Exploration of Edexcel A2 Section A Unit 6' by Rebecca Reed

11th - 13th February

King's College London production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata

5th March

Workshop and lecture on 'Chorus Matters' by Yana Zarifi (Thiasos Theatre Company)

19th March

Workshop and lecture on 'Greek Tragedy' by Professor Edith Hall (Royal Holloway) and 'Chorus Matters' by Yana Zarifi (Thiasos Theatre Company)

More events to follow ....

Last year's programme