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Watch out for Oedipus at the NT

I had this via our President:
OEDIPUS coming on at NATIONAL THEATRE next year – dates
unspecified as yet.
Ralph Fiennes in title role – wonder if he can match Olivier's legendary
blood-curdling howl.

Also at the Edinburgh Fringe … Sophocles, Euripides, Homer

AINE … (tigone)
Adam
Howard's jarring re-imagining of Sophocles, updated to 'The Troubles'
of early 1970s Belfast.
3-16 August
Over one-too-many pints, hot-headed Aine and
unyielding uncle Charlie fight to the death.
'By far the best young
ensemble cast on the Fringe' Scotsman. www.rembiko.com
venue:
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House
group:
HWS Rembiko
category:
Theatre
related link:
http://www.rembiko.com
Box office
Bacchic
1st to 27th AugustAn
icon. An orgy. A dissenter.
Caught between Heaven [...]

Trojan Women at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

See Edinburgh Fringe websiteTrojan Women 20-26 AugustTheir
city conquered and their husbands and sons slain, what choices are now
left? David Stuttard's vibrant adaptation of Euripides' classic play
will make you rethink your approach to wars and how people survive them.Sweet ECAThe Ding MillersTheatre

Can you write a simple song?

The song books come out at ArLT Summer School, and teachers let their hair down by singing ditties in Latin.
Some are recent compositions – Latin versions of Delilah or Ilkley Moor, for instance. Others are traditional, like Gaudeamus igitur. But the core of the songbook was the book of songs by our founder, Rouse, which [...]

The US Latin learning revival

From Whittier Daily News
Mt. SAC revives Latin classes

By Caroline An Staff Writer

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Romans knew all about using flood plains

Letter in the Daily Telegraph
Sir
- The Housing Minister Yvette Cooper's stupid – to use her own word -
example of the Romans constructing the city of York on a flood plain,
to justify her Government's massive building plans, just won't wash
(report, July 24).
The Romans sited
York on a sandstone ridge between two navigable rivers, which also
provided [...]

Encouraging tourism to Hadrian's Wall

From Bdaily.info
A new North East marketing campaign
will be unveiled this week that will assume the form of the latest
summertime epic. Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd (HWHL) will launch a
marketing campaign to inspire people to plan their invasion to the
famous Roman frontier this summer.
The organisation responsible
for the marketing, preservation and regeneration of the World Heritage
Site, has unveiled [...]

Free Greek drama workshops in Hereford

I pass on this invitation posted on the OCR community site:
Calling anyone interested in some hands-on workshops
on Greek drama led by the cast and crew of the new adaptation of Aristophanes'
Clouds by kaloi k'agathoi, CIC.
 
Thanks to funding by the Hellenic Society and the kind
sponsors of kaloi k'agathoi's Clouds Project we are able to offer a series [...]

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