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Year 6 video of Prometheus and Pandora on the Minimus website

arltblogger — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:10:38 +0100

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.

Euripides' Hippolytus in Gilbert Murray's translation in Oxford

arltblogger — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:29:14 +0100

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.

The Red Ladies

arltblogger — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:37:00 +0100

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.

3-dvd edition of The Fall of the Roman Empire reviewed

arltblogger — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:58:39 +0100

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).

Film "Fall of the Roman Empire" coming out on DVD

arltblogger — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:10:26 +0100

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.

'Roman Mysteries' series 2 is coming to BBC this summer.

arltblogger — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:52:37 +0100

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.

Mostellaria college production

arltblogger — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:57:30 +0000

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.

Attila the Hun to appear on BBC TV on Wednesday

arltblogger — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:34:43 +0000

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.

Drama and discussion on the death of Socrates on Radio 3

arltblogger — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:12:23 +0000

I've just heard a trailer for Sunday 8 p.m.

Pompeii the Panto

arltblogger — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:32:09 +0000

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.

DVDs in Latin

arltblogger — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:02:13 +0000

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.

Coming up - Ovid retold on Radio 4

arltblogger — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:27:42 +0000

Readers of your blog might be interested to know about Daniel's telling of Philemon and Baucis on Radio 4

Coriolanus and Julius CAesar at Mercury Theatre, Colchester

arltblogger — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:47:15 +0100

The East Anglian Daily Times has a long piece about Shakespeare's two plays in Colchester.

Win tickets to Horrible Histories

arltblogger — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:18:30 +0100

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.

The Bacchae at King's Theatre, Edinburgh

arltblogger — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:18:11 +0100

Review from the Telegraph here. (Have I posted this before?)

Good review of Bacchae at the Edinburgh Festival

arltblogger — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:58:14 +0100

Telegraph review, with clip, here.

Watch out for Oedipus at the NT

arltblogger — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:13:07 +0100

OEDIPUS coming on at NATIONAL THEATRE next year - dates unspecified as yet. Ralph Fiennes in title role

Also at the Edinburgh Fringe ... Sophocles, Euripides, Homer

arltblogger — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:49:03 +0100

Antigone, Bacchae and the Odyssey

Trojan Women at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

arltblogger — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:36:55 +0100

Trojan Women 20-26 August Their city conquered and their husbands and sons slain, what choices are now left?

Ruthless Romans reach York

arltblogger — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:21:35 +0100

BIRMINGHAM Stage Company returns to the Grand Opera House, York, from Monday with more gory stories from Terry Deary's Horrible Histories books.

Two Aeneid videos

arltblogger — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:56:51 +0100

A link to these two school-made videos was sent to me this evening. They cover (in English) the events of Aeneid Book II.

Vergil is a box office hit

arltblogger — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:41:14 +0100

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!

"Rome" series 2 starts 20th June

arltblogger — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:20:25 +0100

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.

Echo and Narcissus danced

arltblogger — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:05:25 +0100

Marston’s dance, Echo and Narcissus, is a far more powerful, satisfying experience.

Jason and the Argonauts to be staged in Oxford

arltblogger — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:51:23 +0100

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.

Roman Mysteries

arltblogger — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:38:50 +0100

Those lovely children's books have been dramatised and the first episode is on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon at 4.30.

Roman History (1)

arltblogger — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:55:53 +0100

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.

Kaloi k'Agathoi's Clouds

arltblogger — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:17:30 +0100

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.

Ancient and Modern - Peter Jones on 300

arltblogger — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:30:10 +0100

Peter Jones in the Spectator applies the hatchet to the film 300.

Ruthless Romans to be staged in Cambridge

arltblogger — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:44:43 +0100

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.