About

From 2018 to 2025, the Centre provided a long-term hub for collaborations between our researchers and contemporary play-makers, theatre educators, and secondary schools. We worked with anyone who thought they might benefit from our expertise in Greek and Roman drama and the other ancient performance genres (such as Greek epic and lyric poetry). We shared knowledge about post-classical ‘receptions’ and ‘re-imaginings’ of ancient performance texts from late antiquity to the present day.

The Centre worked to bring Classics’ and other Schools’ research activity to the wider academic community, and to the general public beyond the university. We learned from and and collaborated with other researchers in fields relevant to the Centre. To that end, we organized conferences and workshops which brought together scholars from across the globe and hosted an annual lecture from a visiting academic or theatre practitioner.

We gave advice and support to new student productions of Greek and Roman drama which took place in St Andrews. (Since the Centre’s inception, St Andrews students have staged four plays: Aristophanes Birds, Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Plautus’ Menaechmi)