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David Stuttard

DAVID STUTTARD  

 Nationality:    British
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David took an MA in Classics from St. Andrews University, where he remained to work on a PhD on Plutarch's Symposiaka. He subsequently taught Classics for eleven years in Edinburgh, St. Andrews and York. In 1993, he founded the theatre company, Actors of Dionysus, which toured regularly throughout the UK, and for which he directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek tragedies. In addition to stage shows, he produced the Penguin Audiobook of Medea and a video entitled The Face of Tragedy, while his play Blow Your Mind, Aristophanes! premiered at London's Mermaid Theatre in association with the British Film Institute and Channel 4. His work has been heard on BBC Radio 3, and his translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon has been adopted as an Open University set text. In 2003 and 2004, David produced Trojan Women and other plays for performance in ancient theatres in Turkey and Albania, including Troy, Ephesus, Aspendus and Butrint. His Trojan Trilogy was premiered at The British Museum in 2007, and in 2008, with James Albrecht he set up Carte Blanche Productions. In 2009, David led a tour for The Traveller entitled Hadrian, Life, Love, Legacy to Rome, Naples and Athens. Further tours are scheduled for 2010. The same year, he and Sam Moorhead wrote AD 410, The Year That Shook Rome, published by The British Museum Press in March 2010. In May 2010, David's pastiche Greek tragedy Economus Wrecked was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. In June, he was elected to serve on the Council of the Roman Society. His adaptation of Aristophanes Lysistrata, together with essays by eight academic experts on the play, was published by Duckworth in August 2010. It is currently being used in a touring production by Actors of Dionysus. David has several more books in the pipeline: PowerGames (about the Greek Olympics of 416BC) for The British Museum; a book provisionally entitled 31BC: Anthony, Cleopatra and the Fall of Egypt to be written with Sam Moorhead, and and a book on the Romans in Britain, also with Sam Moorhead, for Thames and Hudson. David regularly accompanies tours of the eastern Mediterranean and in 2011 will be working with both The Traveller and Westminster Classic Tours.

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below is a list of David Stuttard's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Agamemnon         Ajax         Antigone         Bacchae         Elektra         Hekabe         Hippolytus         Lysistrata         Medea         Oedipus         Trojan Women

Agamemnon

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Aeschylus

1st Produced:
Steiner, London    1999

Organisations:
Actors Of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

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Ajax

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
UK tour    1997

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Translation

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Antigone

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
UK tour    1994

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Bacchae

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
UK tour    2000

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Elektra

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
UK tour    1994

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Hekabe

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
UK tour    1993

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Hippolytus

Synopsis:
The Goddess Aphrodite is angry that Hippolytus worships Artemis and not her. So she makes Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him. When Phaedra discovers what has happened she commits suicide but not before leaving a suicide note in which

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
U K tour    2004

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
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Music:
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Lysistrata

David Stuttard
Follow our heroine, Lysistrata, and the women of Greece in their (not always heartfelt!) battle to deny their men sex in order to stop a bloody war. As tensions mount, frustrations erupt, and phalluses reach bursting point see who wins and if peace is restored in this high octane, hugely enjoyable and absurdist version of Aristophanes' masterpiece.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aristophanes

1st Produced:
The Castle, Wellingborough    14 Sep 2010

Organisations:
aod

1st Published:
Duckworth Academic and Bristol Classical Press, London   978-1853997365

Music:
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Medea

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
UK tour    1996

Organisations:
Actors of Dionysus

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Oedipus

Synopsis:
Environmental degradation, an epidemic sweeping the nation, a head of state so certain of his own abilities that he sees any criticism as a threat. But what if he is, himself, the problem? And how will he accept the truth?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
-    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Trojan Women

Synopsis:
Their city conquered and their husbands and sons slain, what choices are now left? David Stuttard's vibrant adaptation of Euripides' classic play will make you rethink your approach to wars and how people survive them.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The Ding Millers

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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