CADRECentre for Ancient Drama and its Reception
 

Events and public engagement

The Centre places great importance on communicating its expertise in the subject to the interested general public. Members organise a variety of events and take part in a range of public engagement activities.

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Conferences

Research seminars in the Department of Classics and Archaeology

Public engagement
One of the silhouettes for Homer's Iliad created by the British classicistic sculptor John Flaxman in 1793
 
 

Screenings and theatre visits

 

See announcements on the CADRE blog

Previous screenings and visits

Blogpost: Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen

  • 7 October 2016: Screening of Steven Berkoff’s 2011 Oedipus, filmed at the Nottingham Playhouse.
  • 22 May 2015: Screening of the BBC broadcast of Antigone at the Barbican.
  • 6 May 2015: Theatre-trip to Women of Troy at the New Theatre.

Blogpost: Women of Troy, part 3

  • 4 March 2015: Screening of Lars von Triers’ Medea (1988). 
  • 13 December 2014: Theatre-trip to Electra at the Old Vic. 
  • 9 December 2014: Play-reading of Plautus’ Epidicus.
  • 29 November 2014: Theatre-trip to L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Opera North at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.
Blogpost: Drama or History?
  • 2 November 2014: Screening of Anouilh’s Antigone (Great Performances, 1974)
Blogpost: Enjoying Receptions of Athenian Tragedy
  • 21 October 2014: Cinema-trip to Medea by National Theatre Encore at the Broadway Cinema.
Blogpost: On (Not) Spoiling the Medea
  • 14 October 2014: Theatre-trip to Antigone by Pilot Theatre at Nottingham Lakeside Arts.

Blogpost: Tig, You're It

 
 

Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception

Department of Classics and Archaeology
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0)115 951 4800
fax: +44 (0)115 951 4811
email: Naomi Scott, CADRE Director