Category: Drama
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Out, vile jelly! Hecuba: the 2012 King’s College London Greek play
Euripides’ Hecuba is not often performed. I’m not sure why. Euripides also dealt with the aftermath of the sack of Troy in Andromache, and in the Trojan Women, which seem to appeal most to modern taste. The Archices of Performance of Greek and Roman Drama (whose database is being rebuilt) lists no British productions in…
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The Oxford Greek play 2011: Clytemnestra
I am becoming a Greek play tourist; having become a regular attender at the Cambridge play, and the King’s College London one, I decided to strike out for Oxford. While Oxford’s tradition of performance of a play has not been as regular as Cambridge’s. Amanda Wrigley, formerly of the Archives of Performance of Greek…
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Agamemnon
The 2010 Cambridge Greek play was Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and was a triumph. Since I am neither an accomplished Greek scholar, nor skilled in drama criticism, I’ll refer you to the Guardian review by Padraig Belton and the one in Varsity by Xavier Buxton. I suggest you don’t bother with this one, which complains about it…
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Backward Glance at Brighton’s Komedia
J’ai perdu mon Eurydice. I hesitate to put myself forward as Seaford’s Ken Tynan, but the performance I saw in the Komedia Studio Bar on Sunday of multi story’s Backward Glance deserves a review. Multi story are two actors, Gill Nathanson and Bill Buffery, with an international reputation in fringe theatre. They offered last year’s…
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Zounds
I hope this blog will not turn into an arts review. There are plenty of people better-qualified to hold forth on the latest plays, films, books and so on, and some of them can even claim salaries for doing so. That said, I cannot let last night’s Radio 3 production of Sheridan’s the Rivals pass…