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Come see Trackers! You know you want to!
Opening this Friday and running on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays for the next three weeks. 7:30pm
Booking info at www.omniprop.org or go to the MUDfest festival club in the Arts Centre (the one at uni, not the big impressive one, it's in the building on the corner of Gratten and Swanston)
Plundering the rubbish dumps at Oxyrhynchus, on the verge of nervous breakdown, two Oxford archaeologists hunt frantically for cultural treasure… and dig up ancient anarchy. Based loosely on modern fact and ancient fiction Omniprop Productions presents Tony Harrison’s London smash hit, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus.
In 1897 Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt are supervising a team of unruly natives at the dig-site of ancient Greek-Egyptian city Oxyrhynchus. Hoping to discover lost works of cultural significance they instead uncover the petitions and pleas of commoners. Once hope is nearly gone they find fragments of a lost satyr play by Sophocles, Ichneutae, “The Tracking Satyrs.” This discovery unleashes the play’s characters from the papyrus and Apollo, Hermes, Silenus and a chorus of lewd, crude and rude satyrs (complete with their traditional costume of beards, ears and detachable phalluses) bring Sophocles’ long lost work to life. This bawdy and gory play gives new perspectives on the Sophocles of tragedy with whom you may be familiar.
Tony Harrison, most famous for his 1985 poem V, has been called Britain’s leading film and theatre poet. A Classics scholar from Leeds, he believes that, especially under censorship, “audiences read classical plays with a contemporary eye”. With Trackers he has skillfully woven the ancient and modern to make a compelling, thought-provoking and entertaining play.
First performed at the ancient stadium at Delphi in 1988, award wining theatre company Omniprop will perform Harrison’s Trackers of Oxyrhynchus among the arches and cloisters of the Old Law Quad at the University of Melbourne as part of the MUDfest festival. This will be the first not-completely-ancient play the classicists of Omniprop have undertaken, as well as their first performance outdoors.
Director Helen Slaney, a veteran and founding member of Omniprop, has a string of arrows to her bow; acclaimed actor, director and scholar. This will be her final Australian performance before departing to pursue her PhD at Oxford University.
Fall through the gaps in Sophocles’ text and be swept up in the satyrs’ search for the source of Poetry, Art, and all that Bull.
Please note this is an outdoor performance with standing room only, Omniprop recommends theatre-goers dress in warm and comfortable clothing.
Warning: may contain traces of ancient Greek.
Please come? I'm producing for the first time ever, and I want it to be a success!
Opening this Friday and running on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays for the next three weeks. 7:30pm
Booking info at www.omniprop.org or go to the MUDfest festival club in the Arts Centre (the one at uni, not the big impressive one, it's in the building on the corner of Gratten and Swanston)
Plundering the rubbish dumps at Oxyrhynchus, on the verge of nervous breakdown, two Oxford archaeologists hunt frantically for cultural treasure… and dig up ancient anarchy. Based loosely on modern fact and ancient fiction Omniprop Productions presents Tony Harrison’s London smash hit, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus.
In 1897 Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt are supervising a team of unruly natives at the dig-site of ancient Greek-Egyptian city Oxyrhynchus. Hoping to discover lost works of cultural significance they instead uncover the petitions and pleas of commoners. Once hope is nearly gone they find fragments of a lost satyr play by Sophocles, Ichneutae, “The Tracking Satyrs.” This discovery unleashes the play’s characters from the papyrus and Apollo, Hermes, Silenus and a chorus of lewd, crude and rude satyrs (complete with their traditional costume of beards, ears and detachable phalluses) bring Sophocles’ long lost work to life. This bawdy and gory play gives new perspectives on the Sophocles of tragedy with whom you may be familiar.
Tony Harrison, most famous for his 1985 poem V, has been called Britain’s leading film and theatre poet. A Classics scholar from Leeds, he believes that, especially under censorship, “audiences read classical plays with a contemporary eye”. With Trackers he has skillfully woven the ancient and modern to make a compelling, thought-provoking and entertaining play.
First performed at the ancient stadium at Delphi in 1988, award wining theatre company Omniprop will perform Harrison’s Trackers of Oxyrhynchus among the arches and cloisters of the Old Law Quad at the University of Melbourne as part of the MUDfest festival. This will be the first not-completely-ancient play the classicists of Omniprop have undertaken, as well as their first performance outdoors.
Director Helen Slaney, a veteran and founding member of Omniprop, has a string of arrows to her bow; acclaimed actor, director and scholar. This will be her final Australian performance before departing to pursue her PhD at Oxford University.
Fall through the gaps in Sophocles’ text and be swept up in the satyrs’ search for the source of Poetry, Art, and all that Bull.
Please note this is an outdoor performance with standing room only, Omniprop recommends theatre-goers dress in warm and comfortable clothing.
Warning: may contain traces of ancient Greek.
Please come? I'm producing for the first time ever, and I want it to be a success!
