This year’s play will be performed at the Greenwood Theatre, London Bridge (SE1 3RA) from 28-30 June 2023 (19:00 nightly with 14.30 on the 28th and 29th).
This year we are celebrating 70 years of the KCL Greek Play and the 30th anniversary of Actors of Dionysus (a joint centenary celebration!). Written, devised, performed, and directed by King’s College London students, Iphigeneia is their contemporary response to Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis, Iphigeneia in Taurisand Aeschylus’ Oresteia. This year’s play will examine the glorification of violence and conquest and the impact on those who suffer the consequences, rippling out across generations. Through a re-telling of Iphigeneia’s story, we aim to ask – Who is ‘the greater good’ really for?
The performance will incorporate original ancient Greek text and new writing in order to present a work that speaks to the social and political consequences and the place and responsibility of an individual within society.
Evening performances will be preceded by pre-show events at 18.00 featuring leading scholars; these are free to ticket holders for the subsequent performance.
The pre-show speakers for this year’s Greek Play, Iphigeneia:
June 28th – Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford University)
June 29th – Dr Sara Reimers (Bristol University)
June 30th – Professor Edith Hall (Durham University)
Further information is available here.
Tickets can be purchased here.
For enquiries contact greekplay@kcl.ac.uk.
Note: this is a fee-paying event run by an organisation which is not affiliated to, or funded by, the Classical Association