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 Marina Carr
on Hecuba at the Swan Theatre,
Stratford
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
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.
bringingiphigeniahomereport.pdf
For a full report click here!
Working with Tony
Harrison
The premiere of Iphigenia in
Crimea, directed by Emma Harding, was broadcast on BBC
Radio 3, 23rd April 2017.
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.
Actors' Touring
Company
Edith was Classical Consultant to
the Actors' Touring Company as they prepared for their autumn 2017
production of Aeschylus' Suppliants with reconstructions
of his other plays in the same cycle. The production will use
evidence like this vase-painting.
Thiasos
Interviewed by Yana Zarifi of Thiasos
Theatre Company after a production of Hippolytus
Wth the
Musicians of Thiasos Theatre Company before their production of
Bacchae in New College Gardens, Oxford, 6th July
2017.
Other Consultancies
and Involvement with Professional
Theatre
National
Theatre
Edith has been consultant to the
cast and director of the NT's 2018-19 Antony and
Cleopatra on the play's historiical
background.
Bridge Theatre
Edith advised Nick Hytner on
classical Amazons and wrote the programme essay for the Bridge
Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019)
A Midsummer Night website.pdf
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Royal Shakespeare
Company
Edith was Classical Consultant to
Kimberley Sykes' production of the RSC's 2017 Christopher
Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthagestarring Chipo Chung
Dido programme RSC.pdf
Programme Essay Marlowe
Edith was Classical Consultant to
the RSC's new 2017 'Roman' comedy, after Plautus, Vice
Versa by Phil Porter. Her programme essay is
available in the pdf below
viceversaprogramme.pdf
Phil Porter's VICE VERSA at the RSC
Edith advised actor Paul Brennen
in his preparations for the role of Euripides in Howard Brenton's
2019 Jude at the Hampstead Theatre, directed by
Edward Hall.
Edith provided an essay for the
programme of the Bridge Theatre's 2019 production ofA Midsummer Night's
Dream, directed by NIcholas Hytner, whom she advised
on ancient Greek Amazon tales.
Edith provided an essay for the
English Touring Opera's 2019 production of Mozart's
Idomeneo.
In May 2019 Edith advisd Tom
Mansfield and the Upstart Theatre Company on the Chrous
Project's forthcoming Oresteia.
''3,000 years of Homeric fan fiction: a
conversation with Edith Hall', was published in the playbill of the
musical The Golden Apple at the New York City Center
theatre.
Edith provided an essay for the
English Touring Opera's 2016 production of Gluck's
Iphigenie en Tauride.
Edith was panellist at a debate on
Tragedy chaired by Charlotte Higgins at the Almeida
Theatre, 22nd October 2015.
Edith was panellist at the Almeida Theatre with
Director Bijan Sheibani and psychoanalyst Dr David Bell
for a discussion of Sophocles' Oedipus, 6th August
2015.
Edith was rehearsal consultant and
programme essay writer for Marina Carr's new Hecuba at the
Royal Shakespeare Company, July-September 2015.
Edith wrote the programme essay for the 2015
Antigone at the Barbican, directed by Ivo van Hove and
starring Juliette Binoche.
Edith has advised
Rikki Henry, BBC Performing Arts Fellow at the HOME theatre,
Manchester, on his forthcoming production of Sophocles'
Oedipus.
Edith spoke at the Gate Theatre, London, on
Roland Schimmelpfennig's
Idomeneus, after the evening performance on 3rd July
2014.
Edith spoke on a National Theatre
platform,
Acts of Madnessto discuss Euripides'Medeawith psychiatrist Prof. Femi Oyebode at the
National Theatre, Aug. 19 2014, 1800. She also wrote a programme
essay for this production.
Edith wrote the programme essay for State
Theatre of Northern Greece's 2014 production of Aeschylus'
Persians.
In spring 2012 Edith was consultant at an RSC
workshop on adapting Euripides'Hecuba, with the
playwright Marina Carr.
National Theatre Platformon comic slaves and servants at
the Olivier, 'Serving Up A Laugh', with Tony Robinson and others.
Sat 24 Mar, 2012, 10.30am.
Edith provided the translation of
Aeschylus'Agamemnonon which the surtitles were based
for the Cambridge Greek play, dir. Helen Eastman, October
2011.
Edith was commissioned in August 2010 to write
the programme essay forGospel at Colonusat
Edinburgh Playhouse.
In 2009 Edith was consultant for the production
of Frank McGuinness' new translation of Euripides'Helenat Shakespeare's Globe in London,
and wrote the programme essay.
In 2008 Edith was academic consultant and wrote
the programme essay forOedipus, starring
Ralph Fiennes, at the National Theatre.
In 2006 Edith wrote the programme essay for
David Farr's version of theOdysseystaged at the
Lyric, Hammersmith.
In 2004 Edith acted as rehearsal consultant and
wrote the programme essay for the Royal Shakespeare Compnay's
production of Euripides'Hecubastarring
Vanessa Redgrave, in Tony Harrison's translation.
In 2004 Edith worked with Colin Teevan,
providing the translation of sixty fragments of Greek tragedy
including those of Euripides'Alcmaeon in Corinthto
develop into a new play, first performed until the titleCock
o' the North, dir. Martin Wylde, at Live Theatre in
Newcastle upon Tyne. She also attended rehearsals. The role of Hera
is based on her.
Programme essay, 'Dead daughters in Carr and
Euripides', for the premiere of Marina Carr'sAriel, Abbey Theatre,
Dublin.
In March 2002 Edith was rehearsal consultant and wrote the
programme essay for
Bacchae
at the National Theatre, directed by Peter Hall. She also appeared
as speaker on a National Theatre platform with Colin Teevan on 20th
May 2003.
In 1992 Edith was rehearsal consultant and wrote
the programme essay for John Buller's operatic setting of
Euripides'Bacchaeat the English National
Opera.
Edith was Helen McCrory's classical
consultant on Medeaat
the National Theatre 2015
Abbey Theatre
Dublin
Edith recorded a podcast interview
with director Conor Hanratty of the Abbey Theatre's online
Persians 2020
here:
With Movement Director Leonidas
Papadopoulos & Akis Sakellariou (Atossa) at Epidavros premiere of
Aeschylus Persians by the State Theatre of Northern Greece,
2014.
Helen, translated by
Frank McGuinness, at Shakespeare's Globe.
Hecuba,
translated by Tony Harrison, RSC
Colin
Teevan's Alcmaeon in Corinth (2004) for which Edith
provided the translations of Greek tragic fragments.
Ralph Fiennes as Oedipus, RNT
2008
Marina Carr's Ariel
at the Abbey Theatre,
Dublin
Euripides' Bacchae,
directed by Peter Hall, National Theatre
John
Buller's BAKKHAI at the ENO.
Panel on
Oedipus
at the Almeida Theatre,
2016
Working with Northern Broadsides
and Helen Eastman
In an exciting initiative
funded by the AHRC, Edith co-supervised a PhD
student, Helen
Eastman (already an established theatre writer,
director and producer), with Barrie Rutter (above) and Sue
Andrews of Northern
Broadsides Theatre Company, of which Edith is a Patron.
Helen researched the company's engagements with ancient drama or
drama set in antiquity, including works by Ted Hughes, Tony
Harrison, and Blake Morrison. Helen was awarded her PhD in
2015.
