The premiere of Iphigenia in
Crimea, directed by Emma Harding, was broadcast on BBC
Radio 3, 23rd April 2017.
bringingiphigeniahomereport.pdf
For a full report click here!
Edith persuaded the poet and dramatist
Tony
Harrison,
recent winner of the David Cohen Prize 2015, the Pen/Pinter Prize
and the European prize for Literature, to think about writing a new
version or adaptation of Euripides'Iphigenia
in Tauris.It
was intended to perform it in the theatre in the real
'Tauris', the ancient site of Tauric Chersonesos at Sevastopol in
the southern Crimea. The e Russian annexation have made this
impossible.
During
the academic year 2010-11 he took up a position in the Classics
Department at Royal Holloway as Leverhulme Artist in Residence.In
September 2011 he and Edith conducted a reconnaissance trip to the
ancient Greek sites in the area, in company with two archaeologists
(David Braund and Jane Harrison) and the actress Sian Thomas. The
play is set during the Crimean War...
Working with Marina Carr
on Hecuba at the Swan Theatre,
Stratford
Working with Ian Rickson and Kristin Scott
Thomas at the Old Vic
Edith was official consultant to Ian
Rickson, director of Sophocles' Electra starring Kristin
Scott Thomas at the Old Vic, oepning September 2014
Working with
Theatercombinat
In March-June 2008 Edith
acted as consultant and visiting speaker for Claudia Bosse's
production with
Theatercombinat of Aeschylus' Persians in
Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, the city which once gave Adolf
Hitler his German citizenship. The production involved
training several hundred members of the Braunschweig public
as the chorus.
Working with the Gardzienice
Centre for
Theatre Practices
Edith is Academic Consultant to
this pioneering theatre company, based near Lublin in
south-eastern Poland. Its director Wlodzimierz
Staniewski repeatedly turns to ancient Greek theatre both for
his repertoire and his vision of theatre performance, and has
assisted in the development of his Pythian Oratorio and
Iphigenia in Tauris (pictured below) to add to his
Euripidean productions Iphigenia in Aulis and
Electra.
