Performances in the 2020s
KCL Greek Play 2024
Lysistrata in the Wings - 2024
A script unsuitable for Victorian sensibilities. A growing gender revolution.
A student theatre group. What could go wrong?
Near the end of the nineteenth century, a group of students gather to put on their 6th annual Greek Play – a performance of an original ancient text. However, (recent) tradition is disrupted when they find out that not only are they to stage the seemingly unstageable Lysistrata, but that female students from the separate Ladies Department will participate for the first time....and nothing quite goes according to plan!
Using a mixture of new material and original text from Aristophanes, Lysistrata in the Wings explores the reinterpretation of ancient theatre and how it takes on new meanings for each generation.
Iphigeneia – 2023
Our pre-performance speakers:
- 28 June - Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford University)
- 29 June - Dr Sara Reimers (Bristol University)
- 30 June - Professor Edith Hall (Durham University)
To celebrate 70 years of the KCL Greek Play and the 30th anniversary of Actors of Dionysus (a joint centenary celebration!) we are excited to announce that the King’s Greek Play 2023 will be a reimagining of the story of Iphigeneia.
This year’s play offers a fresh perspective on the multiple moral dilemmas that are so central to the girl’s mythical life, examining the cyclical nature of violence and conflict which impact generations to come.
Through a re-telling of Iphigeneia's tragedy in a modern context, we wish to confront the audience with this question: No one wants war - but how much are you willing to pay for peace?