Greek Tragedy and the Digital

George Rodosthenous is Professor Theatre Directing at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, UK. Angeliki Poulou is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

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INTRODUCTION
George Rodosthenous (University of Leeds, UK) and Angeliki Poulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

PRELUDE
The Digital in Ruins: Greek Tragedy and the Postdigital
David M. Berry (University of Sussex, UK)

THE PRESENCE OF THE DIGITAL IN GREEK TRAGEDY:
DEVELOPMENTS AND ENCOUNTERS WITH TECHNOLOGY

1. From the ekkyklema to Ivo Van Hove: The Technology of Presence in Multimedia Theatre and the Presence of the Digital in Performance
George Sampatakakis (University of Patras, Greece)

2. The Dramaturgy of Digital Technology and the Greek Tragedy: A Rhizomatic Encounter
Angeliki Poulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

3. Digitizing the Canon: Mediated Lives and Purloined Realities in Jay Scheib’s The Medea, Wooster Group’s To You, the Birdie! and Persona Theatre Company’s Phaedra I—
Avra Sidiropoulou (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

THE CHORUS AND THE DIGITAL:
RE-DISCOVERING THE POLITICS

4. ‘Inventing’ the Ancient Tragic Chorus: Communality and the Digital in the 1999 Oresteias by Katie Mitchell (NT, London) and Georges Lavaudant (Odéon, Paris)
Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford, UK)

5. Augmented Vocal Chorus: From Ancient Drama to the New Mythologies of the Actor
Chloé Larmet and Ana Wegner (ArTeC – Labex, University Paris 8, France)

6. Tragedy and the Digital Environment: Ancient Desiring Machines, Choruses and Oedipus
Sebastian Kirsch (New York University, USA)

AVATARS, MASKS AND CYBORGS:
AUGMENTING THE REALITY

7. Digital Mask for Ancient Greek Drama: Artificiality, Constraint and Metamorphosis
Giulia Filacanapa and Erica Magris (ArTeC – Labex, University Paris 8, France)

8. Cassandra in PythiaDelphine21: Oracles, Cyborgs and the Tragedy of Cassandra and Temporalities within the Digital Julie Wilson-Bokowiec (University of Huddersfield, UK)

9. Colonial Convulsions: Akram Khan’s Xen(os) and the Digital Prometheus
Mario Telo, (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

POSTLUDE
Pre- and Post-Human(-ist) Confluences in Contemporary Productions of Greek Tragedy: The Complete Eradication of the Live Actor from the Tragic Stage
Paul Monaghan (Nissiping University, Canada)

IN MEMORIAM MICHALIS CACOYANNIS
Technological Triumph and Greek Tragedy: Digitizing Michalis Cacoyannis’ Trojan Trilogy
Marianne McDonald (UCSD, USA)

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