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SUMMARY:'Directing the Cambridge Greek Play' - Helen Eastman
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CONTACT:Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:Bring your questions to theatre director and classicist Helen 
 Eastman as she rehearses her second Cambridge Greek Play (Agamemnon\, 2010
 ). In a bold move for the Cambridge tradition\, Aristophanes's Frogs will 
 be presented in a double bill with Aeschylus' Prometheus:  come and find o
 ut why.\n\nCan humour translate across a language barrier? How do you rehe
 arse a play in an ancient language whose sounds have to be recreated by sc
 holars\, and performed with verbal precision\, yet emotional power? What s
 pecial skills do actors need to master? Why did the chorus used to be a pr
 oblem for the performance of such plays\, but now makes Greek drama about 
 performance itself? Why is physical theatre\, masks\, and above all music 
 crucial to productions of ancient Greek drama?\n\nHelen Eastman trained as
  a director at LAMDA after graduating from Oxford University in Classics a
 nd English. She ran the Onassis Programme at Oxford from 2005-2011 and is 
 Associate Artist of Oxford's Archive of Performance of Greek and Roman Dra
 ma. She is returning to direct the Cambridge Greek play\, after directing 
 Agamemnon three years ago. Helen is Artistic Director of Live Canon\, for 
 whom she has created theatre and site specific shows\, installations and d
 igital performances throughout the UK. She was one of twelve women invited
  to create work in the Phenomenal People series at the Festival Hall. She 
 has directed theatre\, opera and circus\, including Fair (Trafalgar Studio
 s and UK tour)\, Circus Etc (The De La Warr Pavillion)\, Wild Raspberries 
 (Citizens Theatre\, Glasgow)\, Bug Off (OTC Dublin and tour)\, Cure at Tro
 y (Delphi International Festival and Tour)\, Bridgetower (Hackney Empire a
 nd Tour)\,  Dido and Aeneas (National Tour for English Touring Opera)\, Sp
 eakout (Queen's Theatre\, Hornchurch for English Touring Opera)\, Splat (G
 reenwich Theatre)\, Felt Effects (Theatre503)\, Hansel and Gretel (Cork Op
 era House)\, The Sweet Science of Bruising (National Theatre Studio)\, Clo
 udcuckooland\, nominated for a Total Theatre Award (National Tour)\, Agame
 mnon (Cambridge Arts)\, Pots and Plays (site specific at Ashmolean Museum)
 \, Dear Father Christmas\, Where’s Father Christmas\, and Bicycle Boy (O
 xford Playhouse).  She is also a playwright and librettist and has written
  plays and operas for Oxford Playhouse\, The Royal Society\, Sheffield Cru
 cible\, Queens Hornchurch\, Greenwich Theatre\, Chester Open Air Season\, 
 ETO and the Young Vic. 
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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