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Conference: From Text to Performance: Reimagining Ancient Drama
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- Open to the public
Drama was the ubiquitous speech-act spectacle of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and as such, offers an unrivaled interdisciplinary lens into a wide variety of textual, visual, and kinesthetic experiences of the ancient lived past. Understanding theater as performative language opens pathways to exploring how the utterance of words in a theatrical space generates the experience of drama. Recent decades have advanced our understanding of numerous aspects of ancient Greek and Roman drama: the physical space of the theater; the kinesthetics of performance; the socio-political circumstances of production; the dramatic technique of plays; the roles of music and dance; the bodies, objects, and agents of and within dramatic production. These approaches illuminate the multifaceted nature of ancient dramas as performances, civic events, spectacles, and occasions for reception. This conference will place in dialogue the varied dimensions of and approaches to Greco-Roman drama, seeking to bring out the richness and multiplicity of meanings within performance.
Sponsored by: Department of Classical Studies, Office of the Dean, Reves Center for International Studies, Applied Research Center