Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD)

Description

The University of Oxford’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) is a pioneering centre for international and interdisciplinary research into performances inspired by ancient Greek and Roman tragedies, comedies, and epics. Our focus encompasses performances taking place in any country and at any time, from antiquity to the present day. We consider performance in its broadest sense: professional and amateur alike, on stage, screen, radio, in opera, dance, burlesques, puppet-shows, and more.

We have built three open-access databases, recording details of: 

• performances in the ancient world (6th century BCE to 5th century CE).
• performances in the modern era (1315 CE to present).
• the location of recordings of modern productions (beta-phase)

Inspired by the idea of a digital exhibition, the APGRD has produced two free interactive multimedia ebooks on the performance histories of Euripides' Medea and Aeschylus' Agamemnon.

The APGRD foregrounds digital outputs, tools, methodologies, and advancements in all its work, most notably in our events’ strand Archiving Performance in the Digital Present and our most recent project, Exploring Digital Futures @ APGRD (EDF). The EDF project seeks to reconceptualise audiovisual performance recordings as structured, computational research objects rather than discrete evidential traces or a neutral window onto ‘the performance’.

Both online and in Oxford, the APGRD serves as a hub for researchers, creative practitioners, and academics to engage in the exploration and development of receptions of ancient texts.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1996

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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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Additional Partnerships

Akademie věd České republiky (Czech Academy of Sciences); Arc-Net (European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Hemispheric Institute, New York University; Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin; ReTAGS (Reimagining Tragedy in Africa and the Global South), University of Cape Town; New York University (Hemispheric Institute); Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft / OXIBER);