Conference Schedule

Ancient Drama in Performance VIII

Our gathering this year will commence at on the evening of Friday, October 3, with a casual gathering and an opportunity for presenters to meet with their actors.  The conference will conclude by around 1pm on Sunday, October 5, with a jam-packed, fun-filled series of events in between. This year will include reflections on and celebrations of twenty-five years of the revived Greek Play tradition at Randolph College.

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Friday, October 3, 2025

7pm Registration opens (Chapel)

Your swag awaits, along with yummy snacks and space and time to work with your assigned actors and greet the other attendees.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

9:00am Coffee and Pastries (Pines House)

9:30am: Paper Session 1

Antigone, Aneeka, and Annie: Adapting Antigone in London – Seth Jeppesen

Year of the Cannibals: Liliana Cavani Digests Sophocles – Laura Martins and Wilfred Major

The Gorgons and the poetics of vengeance: understanding Euripides’ Orestes through performance – Christina Filippaki

Who’s the slave and who the god?: Material Evidence for Visualizing the Beating Scene in FrogsCarina De Klerk

Choral Trimeters: Three Modes of Performance – Emmanuel Aprilakis

11am: Keynote: Programmed to Love’: Performing Antigone (and Other Ancient Drama) in the Age of AI – Al Duncan

Noon: Box lunch

1:00pm: Alumnae and Alumni Panel

featuring company members from every new-era production

4pm: Antigone by Sophocles

5:30pm: Talkback

6:30pm: Banquet (Jack Lounge, Smith Hall)

Sunday, October 6, 2025

9:00am: Coffee and pastries

9:30am: Paper session 2

Costuming the Cloud-Chorus – David Williams

The Kinesic Code and Paratragic Function in the Cross-Dressing Scene of Aristophanes’ ThesmophoriazusaeIsmini Sakellaropoulou

Quid Tum: An Internal Response to the Rape in Terence’s EunuchusAlexandra Seiler

Performing What? Absent spectacle in the third stasimon of Sophocles’ ColoneusAsya C. Sigelman

“δόλια δ᾿ ἦν καθάρματα” (“The Purification was a Trick”): Another Look at at Staging Euripides’s Iphigenia among the Taurians, 1306 – 1499 – Timothy Wutrich

11:00am: Paper session 3

“This Mother F***** had better not turn around!”: Building Narrative Tension While Staging the Inevitable in HadestownKrishni Burns

Directing Action and Allusion in the Phoenician WomenAmelia Bensch-Schaus

Hearing Echoes: Structuring Narrative Through Intratextuality in Sophocles’ AntigoneThomas McMath

Sophoclean Silence and Tereus as a Four-Actor Tragedy – Rebecca Posner-Hess

Theatre for the Dead: The Performance of Funerary Drama in Hellenistic Egypt – Allison Hedges

Noon: Box lunch

4pm: Antigone (again, if you like)

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