Events run by the Bacchae project Workshops7th May 2014A one day workshop that brought together Edinburgh staff and postgraduate students (from MSc in Theatre and Performance, Playwriting, Dance, Classics, Politics, Law). Participants approached the play through other works of art, philosophy, legal theory and theology, offering a kaleidoscopic way of engaging with the text and its reception in other disciplines. Document 7th May Programme (503.21 KB / PDF) 9th May 2014A one-day workshop on ‘Voice and Text in The Bacchae’ with Professor Ros Steen, Founder and Director of the Centre for Voice in Performance, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.20th-21st November 2014We offered two day-long practical workshops by theatre director / performer Lydia Koniordou, which focussed on the tragic chorus.Lydia Koniordou MasterclassInvited speakers and Conference23rd-24th October 2014Professor Samuel Weber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University ran a seminar on 23rd of October for postgraduates from Performance Studies, Playwriting and Classics programmes, focusing on The Bacchae. On 24th Professor Weber presented a research paper on: 'Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Hölderlin and Benjamin'. This was to an audience of staff and postgraduates at the ECA boardroom.Watch the presentationProfessor Weber's profile at Northwestern UniversityExhibition16th-20th February 2015During Innovative Learning Week we mounted an exhibition of a series of drawings by Claudia Nocentini, which she created during the May workshop. The title of the exhibition was "Bacchae, Democracy and Violence".Claudia was asked to respond through gestural drawing to the workshop on movement and the chorus run by Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.Exhibition galleryConference18th June, 2015The Bacchae Project concluded with a conference on ''Theatre Citizenship and the Law''.Theatre, Citizenship and the Law This article was published on 2024-08-13
