APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)

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University of Oxford research centre into performances inspired by ancient Greece and Rome: stage plays, ballets, films, tv, audio dramas, drag shows, dance, animation, musicals... from 1315 to present day! http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk

An image of a deer and text that says "OP OXFORD PLAYHOUSE. What's On. IPHIGENIA AT AULIS The Oxford triennial Greek Play returns... Wed 4- Sat 7 Nov Book Now, AGE 14+"
An image of fire and text that says "A Red Extreme Heat Warning has been issued for Oxfordshire advising to avoid non-essential travel. You can still join us in person but feel free to join us online! Thurs 25 June 9:45am 26TH ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE & RECEPTION Technologies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception." Hot.
Engraving of medieval or early modern construction workers building a tower.
Black line illustration of a spider building a web between plants.
A photograph of part of an open door showing some shelves with books and to the right a corridor wall with a clipboard with posters announcing events
An image of ‎poster, with an ancient Greek helmet drawing on it and ‎text that says "‎AGE OF THE HERO A NEW MUSICAL WORKSHOP. JUNE 17 & 18 PHOENIX ARTS CLUB. TICKETS AVAILABLE Now PROTECT YOUR HONOUR. Do YOUR DUTY. BE BRAVE. BE STRONG.‎"‎‎
Screenshot of the APGRD website with the writing "Introductions to... an introduction to ... Women in Greek Theatre" with a picture in black and white of some female heads covered in ancient costumes.
An image of a controller, video games and text that says "Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games Sat 13 June 9am-5pm Lecture Theatre loannou Centre 66 St Giles' & online www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events"
A screenshot from the eventbrite website with a black and white abstract drawing and the writing 'Stories from the Sands'
An image of ‎text that says "‎MOSES: THE EXAGOGE OF EZEKIEL; 'MOSES AND THE SHEPHERD' By RUMI Directed by David Wiles Fri 8 May 6:30pm loannou Centre 66 6StGiles. Free and open to all. No booking required‎"‎. In the background of the text there is a man in robes with a bush on fire to his right.
A screenshot of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, showing three people dressed in white robes, there is an image of text that says "Oh, ruler of my country, Oedipus, you see our company around the Altar, and I, the priest of Zeus!"
Screenshot of the welcome page of the DANSOX website, showing a group of dancers and the logo of DANSOX, with the writing "The heart of dance scholarship in Oxford'
Image of the Atrium of the Ioannou Centre in Oxford, showing two notice boards with posters advertising APGRD events
Image of a cloudy sky and some stage curtains on each side of the image, with the writing undereath: May be an image of text that says "COLLABORATION SYMPOSIUM CHORUS 2026: Transmedial Reception of Ancient Drama. The CHORUS network's 4th annual colloquium on ancient drama receptions Université Grenoble Alpes, MaCI (Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation) Thursday, March 26, ,2026-09:30 2026"
Image of a poster advertising Sympatheia, Symposium of Ancient Theatre Initiatives in Academia. 13-14 April 2026. University of Lisbon. There is an image of an ancient amphitheatre in the background.
Image of a computer showing a stage with a performance, with the writing "From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives, Clarisse Bardiot. Tue 24 March 2pm. Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre"
A photo of Fiona Macintosh in the APGRD Study Room.
image of a screenshot of a movie still showing a couple embracing in the front and three people running to them at the back
Image of a poster with an image of the tower of Babel from a medieval manuscript and the writing "26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, will take place on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June 2026. This year’s theme will be: ‘Technologies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’
Image of a page with etchings of Aristophanes, Birds, drawn and etched by Robert Farren, 1883, as performed by members of the University at the Theatre Royal Cambridge in November 1883.
Image of a poster featuring a computer and the picture of a stage and some actors performing, with the writing "From Stage to Data: Computational Approaches to Performing Arts Archives. Clarisse Bardiot. Tue 24 March 2pm. Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’ & online www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events"
An image of an ancient Greek vase painting style woman holding a thread with a trirreme boat attached to it and text that says "REVOICING CLASSICAL POETRY Josephine Balmer's Things We Leave Behind Ulrike Draesner's penelope'scr()ft: a postepic In conversation with Karen Leeder APGRD, Faculty OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES Tues 3 March 2pm Lecture Theatre, loannou Centre 66 St Giles & ONLINE (apgrd.ox.ac.uk). Free and open to all. No booking required"
Image of a poster with a picture of a landscape with a mountain at the back and some Ancient Greek ruins at the front and the writing: New College Chapel. Songs from Antiquity: Reimagining the Ancient Greek Art of the Muses. Featuring: Callum Armstrong, Felipe Aguirre, Elisa Anzellotti & Rosa Fragorapti. Friday Feb 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Image of a poster with a picture of a landscape with a mountain at the back and some Ancient Greek ruins at the front and the writing: Ancient Greek Dance Workshop lead by Elisa Anzellotti (International Dance Council-UNESCO) February 24-27, 2026, 6-8 hs of workshop. Scan for more details
Poster showing two dancers in the centre and a few people in the background watching. The poster has information on the event, details shared on the post
Image of a poster with a sea landscape, three men on a boat, one of them pulled down by a mermaid, a sun on the left top corner, and the writing: Metaphors of Reception, Reception as a Metaphor Project: An Overview Ben Folit-Weinberg & Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University) Tue 3 Feb 2pm Lecture Theatre Ioannou Centre 66 St Giles
Picture showing two men and a woman in a university corridor, the woman on the right is Fiona Macintosh, the man in the middle Michael Silk, holding a book, and on the left, David Ricks.
Image of a poster for the event 'Advertising Antiquity'. The poster includes an image of a white paper with little paper images attached to it and writing by hand with dates and places. The poster says "Advertising Antiquity. Monday 12 January. Pop-up exhibition & discussion on theatrical posters. exhibition open from 2:30pm'
Picture of the cover of the book: Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk
Photograph of a room with a big window looking at a garden, and three people with their back facing the camera, looking at some papers on a wooden table
Screenshot of the DANSOX website showing a group of people dancing and the DANSOX logo on top with the words ‘the heart of dance scholarship in Oxford’
Image of a woman with short hair created with AI, walking forward, with her right arm across her chest, dressed with a brown suit, behind her the picture of an arm.
Photograph of a dark lecture theatre with a speaker -Dr Pantelis Michelakis, on a lectern and audience looking at him
Picture with a man playing a guitar and three people behind him, all looking to the right
Screenshot of the APGRD event's webpage, showing a picture with a man playing a guitar and three people behind him, all looking to the right
Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Image of a poster with a female dancing in the centre and the information: "Dressing 'Greek': Clothing, Movement, and Performance from ancient to modern, Ertegun House, 29 Nov 9am-18:30pm"
Image of a poster with a picture of Akram Khan with his hands on his pockets looking at the camera with a background of a dance studio, with the writings: "Akram Khan, MBE in conversation with Marcus Bell (UCL), co-organized with Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) Friday, December 5, 2025 - 14:30 Jaqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford"
Image of a painting with a couple dancing on the front and a harlequin on the right, on an abstract colourful background, with writing on top "Beyond the Ballets Russes"
Poster with blue background and a deconstructed image of Albrecht Durer's Women's Bath, showing some women naked washing. The poster has the infomation "PICCOLOMINI'S CHRYSIS A NEO-LATIN PLAY PERFORMANCE & BOOK LAUNCH Cynthia Liu and R. A. Smith, The 'Chrysis of Enea Silvio Piccolomini"
Image of a poster showing an old picture of Constantine Cavafy standing with his hand on a piece of furniture, with the information: "In converstaion with Gregory Jusdanis, Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography. Taylor Institution, Main Hall, Tuesday 25th November 2025, 5pm. Free and open to all"
Image of a poster with a picture of a woman holding a goat and the information: "Phoebe Giannisi, 5pm, 17 Nov 2025. In conversation with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings. Taylor Institution. St Giles. All welcome; no booking required"
Illustration: Tereus cuts Philomela's tongue, in The Bible of Poets (Metamorphoses of Ovid, moralized by Thomas Walleys and translated by Colard Mansion), 1494, Paris BnF, Velin 559, fol. 66v.
Screenshot of "Conceptual Metaphors in Reception Studies: week 2" Seminar. Presence, Typology, Time. Duncan Kennedy, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 14:00. On top there is an image of an old painting depicting a siren on the left pulling a man on a boat into the sea by his head.
Photograph of page 140 from the book Vallejo, Irene. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. Translated by Charlotte Whittle. Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
Photograph of a rehearsal script of the Oresteia, by Tony Harrison, an APGRD archive item once belonging to Oliver Taplin (academic consultant on Peter Hall’s National Theatre production of 1981).
Photograph of the National Theatre exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention", showing a young man standing in front of a panel with information and pictures and listening to some audio information on headphones.