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New Visiting practitioner-scholar: Fleur Darkin

From January-June 2019, the School’s Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama will have its first visiting practitioner-scholar.  Fleur Darkin is a world-leading choreographer, dancer and director.…

Aristophanes Birds: 3rd/4th November 2018

Birds is set in a fantastical world where 2 men, Peisetairos and Euelpides, convince the world’s birds to create a celestial city, Cloudcuckooland, where birds will rule over both gods and humans. With a darker motive,…

VOICES18: SHINE – SCIENCE MEETS OPERA

 25 OCTOBER, 5.30PM (THE BYRE THEATRE) Byre Opera in partnership with SHINE and Voices18: John Eccles and William Congreve,The Judgment of Paris (1701) – the classical Homeric story performed by University students and…

ZINNIE HARRIS LECTURE

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 5.15PM, SCHOOL3, St Salvator’s Quad. Zinnie Harris is a multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. In 2016 she was commissioned to adapt the ‘Oresteia’ by the National…