Dear Colleagues,

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.

All best wishes
Lizzie Belcher

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Euripides' Hippolytus

In the Cloisters at New College, University of Oxford

(Full address: New College, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN)

Thursday 5th – Saturday 7th June 2008 at 7.45pm

Directed by David Raeburn, Lector in Classics at New College.
David has translated a number of tragic texts for the Oxford World's Classics series, and recently published an acclaimed version of Ovid's Metamorphoses for Penguin.

Performed in English, using the famous translation by Gilbert Murray. This production celebrates the 100th anniversary of Murray's election to the Regius Chair of Greek at the University of Oxford.

The production will feature Pre-Raphaelite costumes reflecting the way in which classical subjects were portrayed in the late Victorian period.

Follow this link for more information:

www.new.ox.ac.uk

For tickets please email euripides.hippolytus@googlemail.com or buy on the door.

Overview of the play:

Euripides’ great play, first performed in 428 BC, explores one of the byways of human sexuality with the choices and mistakes that mortals can make under the pressure of life’s disturbances. Theseus’ bastard son, Hippolytus, dedicates himself exclusively to Artemis, the virgin goddess of hunting, and abjures all sex. Aphrodite, the goddess who personifies Desire, is insulted and takes her revenge by making the young man’s stepmother, Phaedra, passionately in love with him. This sets in motion a chain of catastrophic events, redeemed only by a capacity for forgiveness in humans which is lacking in the gods.