The Teachers 2011

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE
for ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA & THEATRE
2 July - 21 July 2012 Droushia & Polis Chrysochous

"a unique opportunity for theatre students,emerging actors and directors, to meet and work
with experts on ancient Greek drama, in an environment which relates directly to
the traditions and the way of life in ancient Greece"

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In 2012 SCHEDULE

Prof. FREDDY DECREUS, lectures:

Theme:
Five lectures (three hours each, featuring each time on a specific methodology):

1. How to read the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a poststructuralist way?
2. Seven goddesses in every woman, a Jungian search for the archetypal Female in ancient and contemporary myth and tragedy.
3. The myth and tragedy of Electra, changing positions in the definition of Mother and Daughter.
4. The Oriental Female, or how postcolonialism redefined a classicist's position.
5. Myth and theatre between biology and anthropology, illustrated by Theodoros Terzopoulos' interpretation of Bacchai.

Prof. Freddy Decreus, Classical philologist, specialized in the reception of classical Antiquity during the 19th and 20th centuries. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the use of structural and semiotic theories (1985).
He works at the University of Gent, where he is responsible for courses in Latin Literature, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature and Theatre History (esp. Ritual Theatre). He is also active in the Teacher Training Department.
His publications have addressed the didactics of classical languages, classical tragedy and the modern stage, mythology and modern painting, postmodernism and the rewriting of the classics, and feminism and the classics.
Recently he published (together with Mieke Kolk) two volumes on rereading classics in ‘East’ and ‘West’: ‘Post-colonial Perspectives on the Tragic’ (2004) and ‘The performance of the Comic in Arabic Theatre. Cultural Heritage, Western Models, Post-colonial Hybridity’ (2005).

Lectures on Greek Myth, Fairy Tales and the Human Brain (Prof. Freddy Decreus)

GEORGE MIKELLIS, lectures:

Theme: Dramaturgical and interpretative views on approaching OEDIPUS REX by Sophocles.

George Mikellis studied Theatre at the University of Patras and English Literature at the University of Athens. Ex-administrator (1994-2007) for Cultural and Theatrical Activities in Secondary Education in the Prefecture of Aetoloacarnania., Member of Board of Directors of the Municipal Theatre of Agrinion since its foundation in 1983. Active participant and speaker on matters of Theatre with focus on Ancient Greek Drama in Symposia and Conferences both in Greece and abroad.

AHMED ETMAN, lectures:

Theme: Araboislamic reception of Oedipus.
Oedipus and Akhnaton,
Tewfiq El Hakim’s KING OEDIPUS and the reconciliation of Islam with Tragedy,
Ahmed Aly Bakatheer: Islamic Oedipus,
Aly Salem: Comic Oedipus as a Pharao

Ahmed Etman is a professor of classics and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, at the Cairo University; Chairman of the Egyptian Society of Graeco-Roman Studies ( ESGRS); Chairman of the Egyptian Society of Comparative Literature ( ESCL ) He has written a number of plays, including Cleopatra worships Peace, 1984, ( translations, Italian 1992 Greek and French 1999, English 2001); The Blind Guest Restores his Sight (French trans.2005); Al Hakim Does Not Join the Hypocritical Procession 1988. ( Spanish trans.2006): The Goats of Oxyrynchus 2001; The Wedding of Library’s Nymph 2001.

NICOS SHIAFKALIS, practical sessions:

Nicos Shiafkalis will lead the practical sessions of the workshop production of OEDIPUS REX, together with all the other tutors.

Nicos Shiafkalis was born in Cyprus in 1934. He graduated acting and directing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London 1957, and then worked at the Greek Theatre in London where he directed modern Greek plays. As an actor he worked on television (BBC, ITV) and in films. Then he got an acting job in Cyprus and became resident director and actor in the Cyprus Theatre Development Organisation. In 1963 he left for Greece to teach at the Costis Michaelides Theatre School in Athens. He returned to Cyprus in 1967 and he founded his own theatre the “Shiafkalis Theatre Co.” In 1971 he became resident director of the Cyprus Theatre Organisation until 1983. Then he went to Greece again as director of the City Theatre in Agrinio where he directed amongst other plays Othello by Shakespeare, Sophocles’ Antigone and Peace by Aristophanes. He also directed for the State Theatre of Northern Greece. After this he returned to Cyprus where he worked as free-lance director and theatre educator. He was the director of the Cyprus Centre of the International Theatre Institute until 2003. In 2004 he was appointed Honorary president of the Cultural Identity and Development Committee of the International Theatre Institute.

He is now the director of the International Summer Institute in Droushia, Pafos.