Author: Julian Bond

There is no workshop this Wednesday and there will be no workshops until January (with the exception of a Xmas one on 17th December). They’ll resume on January 14th and will be centered around two new exciting productions ‘Odin at the Bus Stop’ and ‘Everyman’. regards burjesta

6pm, The Casa Bar Liverpool, Hope St, £3/£2 ‘Drive the corruption from the land Don’t harbour it any longer Past all cure Don’t nurse it in your soil – root it out’ This is the last of ten workshops dedicated to Greek Theatre and we’ve saved the best till last. The finest dramatic spectacle in… Continue reading Burjesta Greek Theatre Workshop – Oedipus Rex – Wed 29th October

6pm, The Casa Bar Liverpool, Hope Street, £3/£2 This week, in our penultimate workshop, we’ll be looking at the essence of Greek Theatre and its foundations in Democracy. How the first ‘modern’ democratic state came about, how it is intrinsically linked to Greek Theatre and how it was reflected in the work of the great… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wednesday 22nd Oct – Greek Theatre & Democracy

Greek Theatre Workshop – Satyrs – This Wed, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, £3/£2 It’s not all tragedy, doom and gloom with Classical Greek Theatre…. This week we’ll be looking at Satyr plays, which were pieces of buffoonery and light-heartedness, grotesque and obscene in nature with which a festival would be finished off… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshop Wednesday, 15th October – Satyr Plays

Our exploration of Greek Theatre continues this Wednesday at the earlier time of 6pm (not 5pm as previously announced) at The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool. An incredibly violent tale of betrayal, lust for power, revenge and justice. It tales the tale of the House of Atreus, the killing of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, her… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshop – Wed 8th October – The Oresteia, Aeschylus, 6pm

Greek Theatre Workshops – This Wednesday, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, Liverpool – Chorus #2 :- We continue our exploration of Greek Theatre with a further look at the use of the Chorus, with two very contrasting pieces – one from ‘Women at the Festival’ by Aristophanes which looks at early forms of ecstasy… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshop – Wed 1st October – Chorus #2

Great monologues for actors – come and hone your skills on some of the most wonderful speeches from the rich banquet of Greek theatre: Medea’s horrific revenge on ‘the other woman’!; Hippolytus chased to his death by a supernatural bull; King Polymestor’s children slayed and his blinding by a vengeful Hecuba; Heracles sent mad by… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshop – Wednesday 17th – Blood, Guts & Gore

Come and join us this Wednesday, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, £3/£2 where we’ll be dipping our toe into Greek comedy concentrating on one particular play from the great Greek comic writer, Aristophanes. Lysistrata sees the women of Athens and Sparta going on a sex strike depriving their warring men of any sex… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshops #4 – 10th Sep – Comedy Aristophanes’ ‘Lysistrata’ – The world’s first sex strike?!

We continue are exploration of Greek Theatre with a look at the dreadful and violent mythology of the ‘House of Atreus’, set around the events of the Greek war against Troy. All three of the great tragedians, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles made use of the same myth of Orestes, returned from exile to aid his… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshop – Orestes and Electra 3rd September

After last week’s wonderfully heartening beginning to workshops exploring Greek Theatre, we turn our attention specifically to the use of the Chorus. The Greek Chorus was an incredibly dynamic and essential part to Greek Theatre. Somehow lost to modern theatre we see no reason why the contribution it then made couldn’t be revived. We’ll be… Continue reading Greek Theatre Workshops #2 – Introducing the Theatre, Wednesday 26th August