Performances

From 2006-11 the Onassis Programme commissioned and co-produced eleven productions of works inspired by ancient Greek plays.

The APGRD regularly hosts public readings of new works in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford.

The triennial Oxford Greek Play, although entirely student led, regularly involves students and staff associated with the APGRD; and material from its collections routinely provides a source of inspiration for those involved in the productions.

27 June, 2024 - 10:00 to 28 June, 2024 - 17:00
Event poster. Text reads: Recovering Dido, Magdalena Zira. Magdalena Zira discusses and performs excerpts from a new play in development with Edith Hall. 3pm Monday 20 November. Pavilion, St Hilda's College Oxford. Free, all welcome. The background image is yellow and depicts the face of an ancient statue, the image fades to white in the top right-hand corner. The APGRD logo is in the bottom right corner.
Magdalena Zira
20 November, 2023 - 15:00
PHOEBE GIANNISI AT THE ONASSIS FESTIVAL ANTIGONE NOW, NEW YORK, 2016
Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Laura Jansen
31 October, 2023 - 19:00
Photograph of two Plaster replicas of the Knossos ‘snake goddesses’ in the Ashmolean Museum
Ruth Padel (Poet), Ellen Adams (KCL), Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Christine Morris (TCD), Andrew Shapland (Oxford)
12 June, 2023 - 14:00
30 April, 2023 - 20:00 to 1 May, 2023 - 06:00
Stephen Sharkey, Jack Tarlton, Alex Silverman
17 February, 2023 - 10:00
28 November, 2022 - 14:00
Roman terracotta plaque, British Museum
8 June, 2022 - 17:00
21 April, 2022 - 18:00
Headshot of A.E. Stallings in front of a black background
A. E. Stallings (Poet)
29 November, 2021 - 14:00
Poster advertising symposium, yellow text on a black background reads: Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama, below a ripped illuminated manuscript of Medea
28 June, 2021 - 09:00 to 29 June, 2021 - 18:00
Photograph of a full moon by Mark Harkin
Alice Oswald (Oxford, Professor of Poetry)
30 November, 2020 - 12:00
Front cover of the APGRD's latest ebook, Agamemnon a performance history
Joan Iyiola (RSC Duchess of Malfi 2018), Struan Leslie (Director, Movement Director, Dramaturg)
27 February, 2020 - 18:00
Front cover of the APGRD's latest ebook, Agamemnon a performance history
Fiona Macintosh (APGRD Director)
27 February, 2020 - 17:30
Front cover of the APGRD's latest ebook, Agamemnon a performance history
Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
27 February, 2020 - 15:00
Marie-Louise Crawley (Choreographer), Struan Leslie (Dramaturg and Movement Director), Malcolm Atkins (Composer)
26 September, 2019 - 17:00
Poster for We Are Not Princesses screening and discussion event
Hal Scardino (Producer), Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Fiona Macintosh (APGRD Director)
13 June, 2019 - 18:00
Poster for a rehearsed reading of Andromeda at the APGRD in 2019
28 January, 2019 - 18:00
Poster for Performing Pindar event at the APGRD in 2019
Nancy Felson (Georgia), Helen Eastman (Theatre Director), Alex Silverman (Composer)
11 January, 2019 - 15:00
12 November, 2018 - 17:00
Poster for the event
Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka)
2 July, 2018 - 17:00
Poster for the event
25 June, 2018 - 19:00
Poster for Emily Wilson's 2017 event at the APGRD
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)
20 November, 2017 - 18:00
Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift (Open University), Oliver Taplin (Oxford University)
2 November, 2017 - 17:00
Paul O'Mahony (APGRD Artist in Residence), Out of Chaos company
27 October, 2017 - 17:00
Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol), Stephen Horne (BFI), Laura Marcus (Oxford), Susan Jones (Oxford), Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
10 March, 2017 - 17:30
Alice Oswald (Poet)
17 October, 2016 - 15:15
16 September, 2016 - 10:00
William Zappa
27 June, 2016 - 19:00
Detail of painted ceiling in Waltham Abbey Parish Church, depicting Janus, photograph by Steve Day
27 June, 2016 - 10:00 to 28 June, 2016 - 10:00
Roberto Cavosi (playwright), Jane House (translator), Marco Gambino (actor), Sasha Waddell (actor), Marina Warner - chairing
10 June, 2016 - 18:00
Blazon Theatre Company
4 March, 2016 - 17:00
Iqbal Khan (Director), Shomit Dutta (Playwright)
13 January, 2016 - 19:00
Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil
14 September, 2015 - 09:00 to 25 September, 2015 - 17:00
Włodzimierz Staniewski, members of Gardzienice
30 June, 2015 - 19:00
'Dust' choreographed  by Cathy Marston, photograph by  Roger Palmer
Cathy Marston, Tom Sapsford, Sonya Cullingford, Aaron Vickers
5 June, 2015 - 17:00
Participants during the Chorus in Action Workshop: six adults with hands raised
27 June, 2014 - 11:00
Memorial wall Washington
Alice Oswald (poet)
12 November, 2012 - 14:15
18 June, 2012 - 14:00 to 19 June, 2012 - 18:00
Oresteia masks
Oliver Taplin, Greg Hicks, Tony Harrison
19 November, 2011 - 17:00 to 19:00
Włodzimierz Staniewski
26 October, 2009 - 14:15