Special Edition: Tragic Fragments
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-11-26

A reading and discussion of tragic fragments, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests Melissa Funke (University of Winnipeg), Charlotte Parkyn (University of Notre Dame), and Roshni Chakraborty (Harvard University). The cast includes Paul Hurley, Lily Ling, Nick Nudler, and Sara Valentine. Tabatha Gayle is the guest director.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To learn about the Medea scene competition, visit https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Text adapted from Sophocles' Tereus (courtesy of Harvard University Press), Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Euripides' Hypsipyle (courtesy of Harvard University Press).

SOPHOCLES, VOL. III, edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Loeb Classical Library Volume 483, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1996 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
 
EURIPIDES, VOL. VIII, edited and translated by Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp, Loeb Classical Library Volume 506, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Ovid's Metamorphoses, translation by Brooke More, available at https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng3:6.412/.

Credits:
Narrator 1 / Father-in-Law / Shepherd / Amphiaraus / Chiron - Paul Hurley
Narrator 2 / Tereus / Itys / Demetrius / Thoas / Euneos - Nick Nudler
Narrator 3 / Procne / Hypsipyle - Sara Valentine
Narrator 4 / Philomela / Chorus / Eurydice - Lily Ling

Direction/Text Adaption/Sound Design - Tabatha Gayle
Acoustic Music - Zack Dictakis

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.

Suggested further reading:
1) Cropp, Martin. Minor Greek Tragedians : Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia. Classical Texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. 

2) Karamanou, Ioanna. Refiguring Tragedy : Studies in Plays Preserved in Fragments and Their Reception. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 80. Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

3) Ioannidou, Eleftheria. Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.