Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-12-03

A reading and discussion of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (translation by Robert Fitzgerald), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Laura Slatkin (New York University). The cast includes Vincent Agnello, Tim Delap, Petra McGregor, Jesse McLaughlin, Paul O’Mahony, Eli Pauley, and Damian Jermaine Thompson.

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.

Scene selections:
1-295 - Oedipus, Antigone, Stranger, Chorus
361-460 - Ismene, Oedipus, Chorus
728-847 - Creon, Oedipus, Antigone, Chorus
1251-1446 - Oedipus, Antigone, Polynices, Chorus
1518-1555 - Oedipus

Credits:
Oedipus - Damian Jermaine Thompson
Antigone - Eli Pauley
Polynices - Tim Delap
Creon/Ismene - Paul O’Mahony
Stranger - Petra McGregor
Chorus - Petra McGregor, Jesse McLaughlin, Vincent Agnello 

Director - Paul O'Mahony

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

Suggested further reading:
1) Markantonatos, A. 2007. Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 87. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. 

2) Easterling, P. E. 2011. "Sophoclean journeys" in Tradition, translation, trauma: The classic and the modern. Edited by J. Parker and T. Mathews, 73–89. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

3) Currie, B. 2012. "Sophocles and hero cult" in A companion to Sophocles. Edited by K. Ormand, 331–348. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.