Herakles, Euripides - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-04-08

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Herakles. Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Richard Neale, and Paul O'Mahony perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis) and Anne-Sophie Noel (Lyon) leading the discussion. 

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Scene selections:
80-169 - Megara, Amphitryon, Chorus, Lykos
252-347 - Megara, Amphitryon, Chorus, Lykos
514-636 - Herakles, Megara, Amphitryon, Chorus 
822-873 - Iris, Lyssa
1089-1254 - Herakles, Amphitryon, Chorus, Theseus
1394-1428 - Theseus, Herakles, Amphitryon, Chorus

Evvy Miller - Megara, Iris, Theseus
Tim Delap - Lykos, Heracles
Richard Neale - Amphitryon, Lyssa
Paul O’Mahony - Chorus

Further reading:
Check out https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-sampling-of-comments-on-the-herakles-of-euripides/.

Featured actors and researchers:
Joel Christensen is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. His new book, The Many-Minded Man: the Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic, published by Cornell University Press, will appear in 2020. 

Tim Delap (http://www.spotlight.com/5313-5614-0380) has performed several times in leading roles at the National Theatre and in the West End. He recently played Rochester in the critically-acclaimed Jane Eyre.

Evvy Miller (https://www.spotlight.com/6297-8974-1880) just finished playing Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe. Other recent credits include leading roles at the National Theatre and RSC. Evvy is an associate director of Actors From The London Stage.

Richard Neale (http://www.spotlight.com/8458-9051-1626) is associate director of Actor From The London Stage with whom he has toured the US playing leading roles in The Tempest, King Lear and Othello. A director and teacher, Richard has almost 20 years’ experience of performing in the UK.

Anne-Sophie Noel is Associate Professor in Greek at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her paper on “Playing make-believe with objects: counterfactual imagination and psychodrama in Greek tragedy” will appear in the forthcoming volume How to Do the Psychology of the Ancient World, edited by V. Glaveanu, L. Huitink, and I. Sluiter and published by Brill in the series, Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation.

Paul O’Mahony (http://www.spotlight.com/2458-3492-2766) is artistic director of Out of Chaos with whom he created the award winning Unmythable. He recently toured the US in their production of Macbeth and is currently working on two productions inspired by ancient culture. He has twice been a visiting artist at the CHS.