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 Frogs – Carina 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’ Thesmophoriazusae – Ismini Sakellaropoulou
Quid Tum: An Internal Response to the Rape in Terence’s Eunuchus – Alexandra Seiler
Performing What? Absent spectacle in the third stasimon of Sophocles’ Coloneus – Asya 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 Hadestown – Krishni Burns
Directing Action and Allusion in the Phoenician Women – Amelia Bensch-Schaus
Hearing Echoes: Structuring Narrative Through Intratextuality in Sophocles’ Antigone – Thomas 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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