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 is 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.
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
Actors' Touring
Company
Edith is Classical Consultant to the Actors'
Touring Company as they prepare for their autumn 2017 production of
Aeschylus' Suppliants with reconstructions of his other
plays in the same cycle. The production will take place at the
Young Vic in London, using evidence like this
vase-painting.
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 Professor Femi
Oyebode at the National Theatre, August 19th 2014, 1800. She has
also written a programee 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 the
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.
Royal Shakespeare
Company
Edith is Classical Consulant to Kimberley Sykes'
production of the RSC's upcoming 2017 Christopher
Marlowe's Dido, Queen of
Carthage.
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 was Helen McCrory's
classical consultant on Medeaat
the National Theatre 2015
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
Euripides' Bacchae, directed by Peter
Hall, National Theatre
Marina Carr's Ariel
at
the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
John
Buller's BAKKHAI at the ENO.
Working with Northern Broadsides and Helen
Eastman
Panel on Oedipus
at
the Almeida Theatre, 2016
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.
