Stay ConnectedA podcast tracing the development of theatre from ancient Greece to the present day through the places and people who made theatre happen. More than just dates and lists of plays we’ll learn about the social. political and historical context that fostered the creation of dramatic art.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable – https://chartable.com/privacy
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A conversation about the earliest forms of theatre, the Greeks, Dionysus and more with performer and podcaster Rosie Beech. Rosie has a masters degree in Social Anthropology and applies the rigours of that subject to her knowledge of the earliest forms of theatre and the role of religion, women and much more in Greek Theatre.
Find Rosie's podcast as Yorick Radio Productions on all good podcast apps and on twitter @RadioYorick
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A special episode to make the First Birthday of the Podcast featuring five stories from the history of the London Theatre
Charles 2nd and Nell Gwyn
King George, the Prince of Wales, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The ghost of William Terriss
Noel Coward's West End Flop
The tradition of the Baddeley Cake
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A short episode to introduce the new website for the podcast and the Facebook Group.
Find us on the web at:
www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com
Find us as a Facebook Group as:
The History of European Theatre Podcast Group
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A special bonus episode to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Here, in seven parts, is a glimpse into a Shakespearean life: Birth, The School Room, The Players, Marriage, Poet, London and The Death Scene
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Episode 47
To conclude the season on the theatre of Rome this episode imagines a resident of the city in 54BCE, recounting in a letter to a sick friend, a day spent travelling to the theatre of Pompey and the time spent there.
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Episode 46:
The second and concluding part of a summary of Roman Theatre presented as my personal top ten of the most influential, interesting and surprising aspects of Roman Theatre.
This episode goes from number 5 to number 1.
No spoilers as to the content of the episode here. You'll have
to listen to hear the countdown.
And then the story of the final demise of theatre in the Roman Empire
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Episode 45
The first part of a summary of Roman Theatre presented as my personal top ten of the most influential, interesting and surprising aspects of Roman Theatre.
This episode goes from number 10 to number 6. The top 5 will follow next time.
No spoilers as to the content of the episode here. You'll have to listen to hear the countdown.
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Episode 44:
A detailed look at the Roman art of Pantomime which was the preeminent form of dramatic art during the Imperial period.
Dr Elodie Palliard's thoughts on why Pantomime dominated and how it was used by the Emperors.
The origins of Pantomime
The performers Pylades, Bathyllus and their relationship with Emperor Augustus
Pantomime as a non-verbal performance style
Description of Pantomime and the regiment for it's supremacy over other forms by Lucian
The banishment of performers and their reinstatement by Caligula
Caligula and pantomime
The morality of pantomime
2nd century description of pantomime by Apuleius.
Dr Paillard is Honorary Associate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney and lecturer and scientific collaborator in the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel. She is currently leading a research project on Greek theatre in Roman Italy, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is the author of 'The Stage and the City. Non-élite Characters in the Tragedies of Sophocles' (Paris 2017).
She is currently co-editing two forthcoming collective volumes, one on Greek Theatre and Metatheatre: Definitions, Problems & Limits and one on Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World. In parallel to her interest in ancient Greek theatre, she is also working on the social structure of Classical Athens and the emergence of democracy.
You can connect with her on Twitter @elopai
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Episode 43:
The history of Roman Mime, one for the two dramatic forms that dominated theatre in the Roman Imperial period.
A word on Horace and his work The Art Of Poetry, one of the most influential works of dramatic theory. His rules for the stage and where he did and didn’t agree with Aristotle
The differences between Mime and other dramatic forms
The origins of mime in Greece ad the Greek colonies in Italy
Mime in Rome and at the Ludi festivals
The limits of textual evidence for mime
Some descriptions of mime plays and titles
Moral issues with mime because of the content relating to adultery
Mime of political satire, including stories from Tiberius, Caligula, Nero and Vespasian.
Mime as part of religious festivals
Women performers in Mime
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Episode 42:
This episode takes a detailed look at Phaedra, Seneca's version of the Hippolytus myth.
The two versions by Euripides and how Seneca used these
A summary of the play
The differences in Seneca's version from Euripides -
The position of Phaedra as innocent or responsible
Greek shame Vs Roman guilt and repentance
Phaedra and the Roman bas step-mother trope
The play in relation to Stoic philosophy
The motif of the hunt, the hunter and the hunted
Presentations of the play in the medieval period
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