Reading Greek Tragedy Online is a project created and sponsored by the Center for Hellenic Studies and Out of Chaos Theatre. Beginning at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in the US and the UK, we presented readings from Greek tragedy weekly from professional actors in conversation with academic experts and theater professionals. The project has grown to 40 planned episodes for 2020 with future plans for monthly performances.
We have posted passages and details for each performance here.
- Reading Tragedy Together When Sheltering Alone
- Together, Alone: Reading Sophocles “Philoctetes”
- Reading Euripides’ “Herakles”
- Madness and Ecstasy: Reading the Bacchae
- Reading Greek Tragedies Online: Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
- Suffering Alone: Reading the “The Women of Trachis” Online
- No Burden Too Terrible for A Person: Reading Euripides’ Orestes Online
- Reading Aeschylus’ “Persians” Online
- Our Unexamined Fears: Reading Euripides’ “Trojan Women” online
- “Nothing More than Ghosts”: Reading Sophocles’ “Ajax” Online
- Knowing Matters: Reading Sophocles’ “Oedipus Tyrannos” Online
- Expect the Unexpected! Reading Euripides’ “Ion” Online
- No Mortal is Ever Free: Reading Euripides’ “Hecuba” Online
- Only Zeus is Free: Reading Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound” Online
- Covering Up Our Evils: Reading Euripides’ “Andromache Online”
- Turn Your Life Around! Reading Aristophanes’ “Clouds” Online
- The Debt All Mortals Owe: Reading Euripides’ “Alcestis” Online
- Humanity’s Many Wonders: Reading Tragic Choruses Online
- What A Piece of Work is Man: Reading Sophocles’ “Antigone” Online
- A Moment of Hesitation: Reading Sophocles’ “Electra” Online
- Faulting the Tricks of the Goddess: Reading “Iphigenia in Tauris” Online
- Everyone’s In Love! Reading Euripides’ “Hippolytus” Online
- Immigrants and the State: Reading Aeschylus’ “Suppliants” Online
