Theatre

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

 

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.

 

Edith persuaded the poet and dramatist Tony Harrison…

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…

 

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.