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Year 12: IB Theatre - Research Presentation

Ancient Roman Comedy / Tragedy

Reference

New York Public Library. (1869 - 1870). Rehearsal for a theatrical performance. [Illustration]. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-0ed5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Other Online Resources

Video: Performance Demonstration

Doctors Timothy Moore and Sharon James co-directed the 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) class for college and university teachers on Roman comedy and ancient performance. Their seminar resulted in a video series of Summer Scholars acting out scenes from some of the 26 Roman comedies still in existence, authored by Plautus and Terence. Summer Scholars learned and played their parts in Latin and English, with masks and without.

Summary: A Percussion Special--a hip-hopera, in the style of Cecil B. DeMille. Translated by Patrick Gray. Directed by Steve Earnest. Filmed in Forest Theatre, on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reference

James, S. (2012, September 02). 04- PseudolusHipHop [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITyO5i1udIQ

Summary: Plautus, Truculentus 775-853. In this scene, Callicles interrogates his own slave and the slave of Phronesium, the prostitute next door, in an attempt to find out the identity of the man who impregnated his unwed daughter, and learn the location of the missing baby.

Reference

James, S. (2012, September 02). Truculentus 1 Latin [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CCpYeqzBgA