Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres


Professor Vicky Angelaki will deliver the guest lecture at the 25th 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, but all are welcome, attendance at the symposium is not required to join the guest lecture.

Focussing on productions of Martin Crimp’s works, as directed by Luc Bondy (Cruel and Tender, 2004) and Katie Mitchell (The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema, 2013), as well as Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen (2015), David Greig’s The Suppliant Women (2016), and Ella Hickson’s Oedipus (2025), Prof. Angelaki will probe key adaptations of the Greek classical canon for their environmentalist activism, investigating how they dynamically carry the potential, both in text and in production, of greening the theatre canon.