Oedipus: King/Colonus Pre-Performance Talk
Event Details
Gather with UNC-Chapel Hill Scholars before opening night of Oedipus: King/Colonus at PlayMakers Repertory Company. This informal conversation will explore some of the history and themes of the play.
Speakers:
Emily Baragwanath
Professor and Chair, Department of Classics
More about Professor Baragwanath
Emily Baragwanath’s main area of scholarly interest is the literary techniques employed by Greek historians in their construction of historical narratives.
She has written essays addressing historians and tragedians, ethnography and history, emotions in historiography, gender, and myth, and defending Classics.
Al Duncan
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
More about Professor Duncan
Al Duncan’s research considers the ways audiences, ancient and modern, perceive and value ancient Greek and Roman theater. Considering plays not simply as poetic texts but also as scripts for performance, his work focuses on the production, materiality, and aesthetics of the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
Other research interests include cognition; philosophy and literature; dramatic fragments; the reception, translation, and transformation of classical works (especially in South Africa), and connections between performance and pedagogy.
Details
DATE & TIME: Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 6:30 pm
COST: Free admission for performance ticket holders. Space is limited, admission on first-come, first-served basis. No pre-registration necessary.
LOCATION: UNC Gillings Center for Dramatic Arts, room 101. (Guidance available from the PlayMakers theater lobby.)
