Another Funny Thing in Maine

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
by Shevelove, Gelbard, Sondheim, based on Plautus
23 July-31 August
Monday - Satuday, 8:30 PM

Wednesday and Thursday, 2:30PM
Tickets $24
Ogunquit Playhouse
P.O. Box 915

Ogunquit, ME 03907
E-Mail: mail@ogunquitplayhouse.org

Box Office: +1 207-646-2402; 207-646-5511; Fax +1 207-646-4732

Tragedy, Anyone?

Sophocles's Antigone

A new sung-through musical adaptation by Denning and Reeve
15-20 August (not Thursday or Saturday); 22-27 Aug (not Thursday or Saturday) at 19:30

Tickets: £10
Wimbledon Theatre
The Broadway
Wimbledon
London SW19 1QG

Box Office: +44 (0) 020 8540 0362.

or order tickets online at What's On.

Nearest railway station: Wimbledon (London Underground)

Not unnoticed in Whitehall

Eurydice, by Jean Anouilh, in a translation by Peter Meyer

Simon Godwin directs Straydogs Company with Desmond Barritt
12 July-14 August
Whitehall Theatre

14 Whitehall
London SW1A 2DY
Box Office: +44 (0) 020 7369 1735

or order tickets online at What's On.

Nearest railway station: Charing Cross (London Underground)

Egyptians, Romans, Early Christians Crowd Globe Stage

• Julius Caesar (20 May - 21 September) in an all male production, in the traditional style. The final performance on 21 September will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first recorded performance in the original Globe.
• The Roman Actor (4 July, 3 PM),written around 1626, concerns a troupe of players in the court of the Emperor Domitian. Tickets: £7.5.
• Antony and Cleopatra (30 July - 26 September)
  
• Messallina, the Insatiate Roman Empress (8 August), written around 1634 by Nathanael Richards, in a staged reading. Tickets: £7.5
• Augustine's Oak. (12 August - 24 September) Augustine converts pagans in this, the first play written specifically for the new Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
• Valentinian (12 September, 3 PM)Written around 1610 this is the story of Emperor Valentinian's rape of the chaste Lucina. Staged reading Tickets: £7.5
  

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT
Box Office: +44 (0) 020 7401 9919

or order tickets online at What's On.

Nearest railway station: London Bridge (London Underground)

Love in the Open Air

Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, directed by Sarah Wooley
13 - 14 August
Tickets £8.00 to £21.50

Open Air Theatre
Regent's Park
London NW1 4NP
Tel. +44 (0)171 486 1933

or order tickets online at What's On.

8-30 August, 1999

• Andromache by David Priestley. World premiere adaptation of Racine's tragedy produced by Laboratorium - 33
  'Not your typical fluffy Fringe effort' (The List). To be trapped, inside a heart, at the end of time... To Love? To Hate? To Die? A tragedy played by clowns. 9 - 14 , at 9 PM; 16 - 21 August, at 9 PM.
  L13 Rocket Venue @ Theatre Arts Centre
  10 Davie Street. Tel: [+44] (0) 131 667 6666. Tickets: £2.5 - £6.50
• Athena Live, by Tapit. Murder, infidelity, intrigue... is it Ancient Greek drama or daytime television? The Oresteia by Aeschylus, as a modern television talkshow. 9 - 14 August, at 10:05. Tel: [+44] (0) 558 9991
  . Tickets: £4.50-£6.
• Women of Troy: 2099 produced by the Pleasance Festival Of Theatre '99. An adaptation of Euripides' Trojan Women by Courttia Newland in a new production by the Riggs O'Hara Theatre Company. 17 - 22 August, at 6:50 PM. 14 Pleasance. Tel. [+44] (0) 131 556 6550.Tickets: £5.00- £6.00.
  
• The Cure at Troy , Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes produced by the Oxford University Touring Company. 4 t- 16 August, at 6:15 PM. Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street. Tel. [+44] (0) 131 225 5105. Tickets: £5 - £6.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
180 High Street
Edinburgh, EH1 1QS
Scotland
Tel: [+44] (0)131 226 5257
Fax: [+44] (0)131 220 4205
E-mail: enquiries@edfringe.com
Website: http://www.edfringe.com/

Early Warning

Antigone, in new version written and directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, will open at the Old Vic on Oct. 15 for a strictly limited season of 15 weeks, and will have a short national tour, visiting Guildford, Bath, Richmond and Malvern, prior to London. For further details, contact 011-44-171-369 1787. Savoy Theatre box office: 011-44-171-836 8888.

Perseus, The Gorgon Slayer, in a Workshop for 8-10 year olds, conducted by Stop the Clock Theatre Company
16 - 20 August, 10:00-16:00.Whether you perform as Perseus, Medusa or an 'impossible odd' you will have a whale of a week of drama workshops, with occasional forays into prop, set and costume making!
Performance for family and friends at 15:00 Friday 20th, Tickets: £50

Theatre Royal
Sawclose
Bath
Avon BA1 1ET
Tel. +44 (0) 01225 448 844.

Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today / UC Berkeley / edited by Sallie Goetsch and C. W. Marshall/ /ISSN 1321-4853

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Last updated 13 June 1999.