The Frogs, Aristophanes
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-12-24

A reading of Aristophanes' Frogs (translation by George Theodoridis), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University).

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.

The text is available at https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/aristophanes/frogs/.

Note: The performance includes profanity.

Credits:
Narrator - Rhys Rusbatch
Xanthias - Ursula Lansley-Early
Dionysus - Tony Jayawardena
Heracles - René Thornton Jr
Corpse - Hannah Barrie
Charon - Eli Pauley
Chorus of Frogs - Rob Castell, Chas Libretto, J Landon Marcus, and a cast of thousands
Chorus of Initiates - Hannah Barrie, Bettina Joy de Guzman, Marietta Hedges, Lanah Koelle, Lily Ling, T Lynn Mikeska
Pluto - Toph Marshall
Euripides - Paul Hurley
Aeschylus - Mariah Gale
Joel Christensen - Joel Christensen 
Clytemnestra - Eunice Roberts
Medea - Evelyn Miller
Messenger - Sara Valentine
Artemis - Noree Victoria
Xerxes - Martin K Lewis
Hecuba chorus - Tamieka Chavis
Tutor - Robert Matney
Orestes - Tim Delap
Pylades - Paul O’Mahony

Director - Paul O'Mahony
Music - Rob Castell

Suggested further reading:
1) "Poetics of Repetition of Frogs in the Frogs" by Andrew Ford (Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics): http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/ford/101101.pdf

2) "Epideixis versus elenchus: The epirrhematic agon and the politics of Aristophanes’ Frogs" by Foivos Karachalios (Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics): http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/karachalios/021002.pdf

3) M. Griffith. 2013. Aristophanes' Frogs. Oxford.