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Sunday, May 25
Year 6 video of Prometheus and Pandora on the Minimus website
by
arltblogger
on Sun 25 May 2008 13:10 BST
I enjoyed this cleverly edited video of the Prometheus story acted in Latin. I suppose one might hear some rumores senum severiorum about some of the pronunciation, but it's a good production. more »
Wednesday, May 14
Euripides' Hippolytus in Gilbert Murray's translation in Oxford
by
arltblogger
on Wed 14 May 2008 20:29 BST
Please find the details below for a production of one of Euripides'
most famous and influential tragedies, to be staged at New College Oxford
next month. more »
Tuesday, May 13
The Red Ladies
by
arltblogger
on Tue 13 May 2008 12:37 BST
The University of Oxford Onassis Programme (which supports the development of new theatre work inspired by ancient Greek drama) is bringing the Red Ladies to Oxford and London at the end of this month. more »
Sunday, April 27
3-dvd edition of The Fall of the Roman Empire reviewed
by
arltblogger
on Sun 27 Apr 2008 14:58 BST
Finally, a third DVD delivers a series of short films, commissioned by the Encyclopedia Brittanica, which offers a classroom like take on Roman History (this material is only available as part of the limited edition package). more »
Saturday, April 5
Film "Fall of the Roman Empire" coming out on DVD
by
arltblogger
on Sat 05 Apr 2008 10:10 BST
The Weinstein Company's Miriam Collection -- a premiere label that restores and releases high-quality vintage classics, contemporary classics, and notable foreign films -- has announced the upcoming DVD release of The Fall of the Roman Empire on April 29th. more »
Thursday, April 3
'Roman Mysteries' series 2 is coming to BBC this summer.
by
arltblogger
on Thu 03 Apr 2008 10:52 BST
Parthenon Entertainment, the UK-based producer and distributor of factual and children's programming, has concluded two new major territory deals for BBC children's drama Roman Mysteries, including a sale to the all-important US market. more »
Sunday, March 2
Mostellaria college production
by
arltblogger
on Sun 02 Mar 2008 23:57 GMT
The Latin play that St. Olaf College will present this year has a plot full of elements many fun-loving young people can relate to: a house party, a frivolous use of money and a little fibbing to a parent. more »
Saturday, February 9
Attila the Hun to appear on BBC TV on Wednesday
by
arltblogger
on Sat 09 Feb 2008 22:34 GMT
Arguably the biggest film ever made direct for British Television, with over 260 CGI shots in sixty minutes, 'Attila the Hun' recreates the lost world of Late Antiquity when Attila The Hun terrorised the Roman empire in its dying days. more »
Tuesday, February 5
Drama and discussion on the death of Socrates on Radio 3
by
arltblogger
on Tue 05 Feb 2008 10:12 GMT
I've just heard a trailer for Sunday 8 p.m. more »
Wednesday, January 30
Pompeii the Panto
by
arltblogger
on Wed 30 Jan 2008 22:32 GMT
NAUGHTY goings-on in the Roman Empire are the subject of a pantomime by a popular local amateur group at Claines Church Hall, Cornmeadow Lane from Monday, February 11. more »
Sunday, November 18
DVDs in Latin
by
arltblogger
on Sun 18 Nov 2007 13:02 GMT
There are 3 short films on the one DVD: the Judgement of Paris, Dido and Aeneas, and the Consolations of Philosophy.
The dialogue is in Latin, with optional subtitles in Latin or English. more »
Tuesday, November 6
Coming up - Ovid retold on Radio 4
by
arltblogger
on Tue 06 Nov 2007 22:27 GMT
Readers of your blog might be interested to know about Daniel's telling of Philemon and Baucis on Radio 4 more »
Friday, October 26
Coriolanus and Julius CAesar at Mercury Theatre, Colchester
by
arltblogger
on Fri 26 Oct 2007 11:47 BST
The East Anglian Daily Times has a long piece about Shakespeare's two plays in Colchester. more »
Thursday, October 11
Win tickets to Horrible Histories
by
arltblogger
on Thu 11 Oct 2007 23:18 BST
We have teamed-up with the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham to offer SoGlos.com’s readers the chance to win one of two family tickets to see Horrible Histories when it comes to Gloucestershire in October. more »
Sunday, September 9
The Bacchae at King's Theatre, Edinburgh
by
arltblogger
on Sun 09 Sep 2007 00:18 BST
Review from the Telegraph here.
(Have I posted this before?) more »
Wednesday, August 22
Good review of Bacchae at the Edinburgh Festival
by
arltblogger
on Wed 22 Aug 2007 17:58 BST
Telegraph review, with clip, here. more »
Saturday, July 28
Watch out for Oedipus at the NT
by
arltblogger
on Sat 28 Jul 2007 23:13 BST
OEDIPUS coming on at NATIONAL THEATRE next year - dates unspecified as yet.
Ralph Fiennes in title role more »
Also at the Edinburgh Fringe ... Sophocles, Euripides, Homer
by
arltblogger
on Sat 28 Jul 2007 22:49 BST
Antigone, Bacchae and the Odyssey more »
Trojan Women at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
by
arltblogger
on Sat 28 Jul 2007 22:36 BST
Trojan Women 20-26 August
Their city conquered and their husbands and sons slain, what choices are now left? more »
Tuesday, July 17
Ruthless Romans reach York
by
arltblogger
on Tue 17 Jul 2007 22:21 BST
BIRMINGHAM Stage Company returns to the Grand Opera House, York, from Monday with more gory stories from Terry Deary's Horrible Histories books. more »
Wednesday, July 4
Two Aeneid videos
by
arltblogger
on Wed 04 Jul 2007 23:56 BST
A link to these two school-made videos was sent to me this evening. They cover (in English) the events of Aeneid Book II. more »
Friday, June 22
Vergil is a box office hit
by
arltblogger
on Fri 22 Jun 2007 11:41 BST
we were quite unprepared for just how popular the production would
prove to be and had I known that we'd sell out 2 days before opening
I would have tried to find a bigger theatre! more »
Wednesday, June 13
"Rome" series 2 starts 20th June
by
arltblogger
on Wed 13 Jun 2007 22:20 BST
You will have seen the trailer by now, but even such an infrequent TV watcher as myself knows that the second series of Rome is starting on 20th June. more »
Wednesday, May 23
Echo and Narcissus danced
by
arltblogger
on Wed 23 May 2007 00:05 BST
Marston’s dance, Echo and Narcissus, is a far more powerful, satisfying experience. more »
Tuesday, May 8
Jason and the Argonauts to be staged in Oxford
by
arltblogger
on Tue 08 May 2007 17:51 BST
I am the producer of 'Jason and the Argonauts' a play devised by the company from Apollonius of Rhodes' epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC. Our target audience is age 11 plus, and we feel that the show would be particularly enjoyable for classics student. more »
Monday, May 7
Roman Mysteries
by
arltblogger
on Mon 07 May 2007 11:38 BST
Those lovely children's books have been dramatised and the first episode is on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon at 4.30. more »
Saturday, April 28
Roman History (1)
by
arltblogger
on Sat 28 Apr 2007 19:55 BST
AS YOU entered the Whitley Bay Playhouse you could feel the excitement as children of all ages took there seats. Everyone jumped as loud music rattled around the room, entrancing you to wonder what would happen next on the stage. more »
Friday, April 6
Kaloi k'Agathoi's Clouds
by
arltblogger
on Fri 06 Apr 2007 20:17 BST
If this were a tabloid newspaper I'd use a screamer about the Classics graduate who died with the script unfinished. But quite apart from this tragedy, Clouds sounds as if it will be worth going to see. more »
Sunday, April 1
Ancient and Modern - Peter Jones on 300
by
arltblogger
on Sun 01 Apr 2007 23:30 BST
Peter Jones in the Spectator applies the hatchet to the film 300. more »
Tuesday, March 27
Ruthless Romans to be staged in Cambridge
by
arltblogger
on Tue 27 Mar 2007 09:44 BST
WITH more fouls than a Premiership football match, there is an opportunity for families to find out how the Romans made murder into a sport in Horrible Histories at Cambridge Arts Theatre. more »
Friday, March 9
300
by
arltblogger
on Fri 09 Mar 2007 23:05 GMT
I keep seeing adverts for the film about Thermopylae (opening 23rd March) on the television, and the Times has a piece about it. If you read the comments on the piece, you'll see that the reviewer is roundly accused: more »
Coriolanus - his view and mine
by
arltblogger
on Fri 09 Mar 2007 15:03 GMT
I meant to write a review of the Stratford Coriolanus a week or more ago. I was there for the first night, and since it was my first (and last) experience of the theatre in its old form, I enjoyed the production for itself, without the background that Charles Spencer brought to it (review, below). more »
Tuesday, March 6
Boadicea - The Rock Opera
by
arltblogger
on Tue 06 Mar 2007 10:22 GMT
She’s powerful, she’s feisty and she’s worthy of her own Rock Opera.
So says New Zealand music maestro Clive Cockburn who created Boadicea - The Rock Opera, which opens in Auckland next month. more » |
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