The Fall of the House of Atreus

Derry-born Andy Hinds has, for many years, been a respected theatre director, playwright and acting teacher. He is currently Artistic Director of Classic Stage Ireland. Recent CSI productions have been Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Euripides' The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis, and Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well, Julius Caesar and The Winter's Tale - all at Dublin's Project Arts Centre. Andy has had many successful theatre and opera productions over the years with all the main theatre companies in Ireland (Druid, Abbey, Gate, Lyric, Red Kettle, Charabanc, Wexford Opera). When working in England Andy has been Associate Director of the Bristol Old Vic, directed with the main English repertory and London Fringe theatre companies, and directed with Glyndebourne and Scottish Opera. He also had an ongoing association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where for many years he taught acting and directed their classic productions. In Dublin he has specialised in the training of young and experienced actors in the performing of classical texts (at The Gaiety School, Trinity College, and with the Classic Stage Ireland Acting Studio). He has lectured for a number of years on classic European Theatre at the Drama Studies Centre at UCD and recently conducted a series of Masterclasses in 'Acting Shakespeare' at Shakespeare's Globe in London. His three stage plays, October Song, The Starving and Crystal's House have had successful productions in England and Ireland and the first two are published by Carysfort Press. His radio play, The First of the Day was broadcast earlier this year on RTE Radio 1. A trilogy of his one-act plays (under the title Blood Ties) will be produced at The New Theatre in December 2012. Dr. Martine Cuypers studied Classics in the Netherlands and Germany (Ph.D. 1997) and worked as a lecturer and research fellow in Hamburg, Leiden, Groningen, Chicago and Washington D.C. before joining the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin in 2005. In Trinity College she lectures in Greek literature, language and history as well as the postgraduate programmes in Literary Translation and Comparative Literature. Martine's publications include the survey work A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (Wiley-Blackwell 2010, with Jim Clauss), the collection Beginning from Apollo (2005) and a translation of Lucian's True Stories (1999). She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Greek drama since 1994 and worked with theatre companies in Germany, the Netherlands, the USA and Ireland, most recently as a consultant on the Classic Stage Ireland productions of Euripides' Bacchae, Sophocles' Oedipus, Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis and Aeschylus' Agamemnon. http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/staff/cuypersm.php