Classics Now in association with the Abbey Theatre presents
Classics Now
28 January 2023
Booking Information
Dates: 28 January 2023
On the Peacock stage
Times:
Staging Greek tragedy 3pm
An evening with Natalie Haynes 6pm
Tickets:
Single show: €13 / €10 Conc.
Package: €20 / €15 Conc.
Book tickets here.
Classics Now highlights the rich and longstanding tradition of Irish poets and playwrights reflecting on Ireland through the Classics.
Curated by Helen Meany, the next Classics Now festival will offer a combination of online discussions, live performances, film screenings, and events in Dublin over the weekend of 27 – 29 January, 2023. The Abbey theatre will host two festival events on the Peacock stage on Saturday 28 of January.
This weekend festival in January will showcase the current surge of interpretations of Classics and the ancient world. Artists, writers and thinkers, international and Irish, are taking Classics as a lens to examine our cultural and political preoccupations today.
“Classics Now highlights the rich and longstanding tradition of Irish poets and playwrights reflecting on Ireland through the Classics. So it is apt and exciting to have these two events in partnership with the Abbey Theatre, where adaptations of Greek tragedy by writers from Seamus Heaney to Marina Carr have been a constant thread through the repertory over decades.” Helen Meany, Classics Now Curator
For the full programme, visit the Classics Now website.
Staging Greek tragedy: a discussion
A panel discussion and Q&A drawing on artists’ insights into performing and directing roles of Greek tragedy for a modern audience.
Chaired by dramaturg Dr Tanya Dean, with RSC Acting Artistic Director Erica Whyman and two of Ireland’s leading performers Derbhle Crotty and Eileen Walsh. On the Peacock stage on Saturday 28 January at 3pm. Tickets are available to book here.
An evening with Natalie Haynes
Medusa is one of the most recognisable figures in Greek Myth: her face has stared out at us for millennia, from Agamemnon’s shield in the Iliad to Versace’s logo now. Gorgons and gorgon heads were an enormously popular feature on ancient statues and temples. So was Medusa always the terrifying monster we have made her? Natalie Haynes takes you on a fast-paced tour through the history of Medusa, who she was and why we still see her all around us today.
From the author of Pandora’s Jar and the new Medusa novel, Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes shows you how to survive contact with someone who can turn you to stone with a glance. On the Peacock stage on Saturday 28 January at 6pm. Tickets are available to book here.
Booking
Get discounted tickets if you book for both shows at the same.
Dates: 28 January
On the Peacock stage
Staging Greek tragedy: 3pm
An evening with Natalie Haynes: 6pm
Book tickets here.