Description
Ancient Drama in Performance VIII
October 3-5, 2025
The Center for Ancient Drama at Randolph College is pleased to announce its eighth biannual conference on Ancient Drama in Performance. We encourage all practitioners and all scholars of ancient drama to attend, whether or not performance issues have ever been part of their work. For those who do involve performance in their scholarship, the meeting will be an opportunity to use our Greek theatre to test their own theories about how the ancients practiced drama. For those who have not made performance a factor, it will be an chance to discover the large and small ways that practical questions of theatre inform and enrich the philological and literary study of plays. We will also share research and scholarship in a context that insists on the play as an experience.
The meeting will coincide with a production of Sophocles' Antigone, directed by Amy R. Cohen, and we look forward both to demonstrating the dramatic power of original practices and to learning much from the responses of the conference-goers.
The conference will feature a keynote address by Al Duncan and a panel celebrating 25 years of the revived series of Greek Plays at Randolph College.
Date & Time
Oct 3, 2025 7:00 PM - Oct 5, 2025 1:00 PM
Venue Details
Whiteside Greek Theatre
2500 Rivermont AvenueLynchburg, Virginia 24503
