performance

Texts

The Antigone Meeting: A Dialogue

Two groups of high school students, one in Greece and the other in the United States, performed a selection of Sophocles’ Antigone, then met via Google+ Hangout to discuss their experiences of learning and staging this ancient tragedy. The selected passage (lines 441–581) focuses on the highly charged moment when Creon first confronts his niece, Antigone, and accuses her of burying her brother, Polyneices, against his decree. Performances Antigone Performance:… Read more

Announcements

Antigone Project News

Imagine attending the Theater of Dionysos in 442 B.C.E. when Sophocles’ Antigone was first produced.  What did the Ancient Greek sound like?  What emotions did it stir in the audience?  Whose perspective would we share?  Which arguments would sway you? In order to capture the power of the language and the dramatic intensity of the play, the Hour 25 community is delighted to announce that two groups of high school… Read more

Topic for Discussion

In Focus: Plato Ion 535b–c

{Socrates is speaking:} Hold it right there. Tell me this, Ion—respond to what I ask without concealment. When you say well the epic verses and induce a feeling of bedazzlement [ekplēxis] for the spectators [theōmenoi]—as you sing of Odysseus leaping onto the threshold and revealing himself to the suitors and pouring out the arrows at his feet, or of Achilles rushing at Hector, or something connected to the pitiful things… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Epic Cycle, Oral Poetics, and Composition in Performance, with Gregory Nagy and Guests

We were pleased to welcome Gregory Nagy and guests, for an Open House session during which we discussed the epic cycle, oral poetics, and composition in performance, including: what the wheel of a chariot means how ring composition works how a performer relates to the audience what happens with predictions within the narrative the difference between improvisation and deep structure/surface structure multiformity vs interpolation You can watch the recording on… Read more