Reading Greek Tragedy Online with Paul O’Mahony, Evelyn Miller, and Joel Christenen

Reading Greek Tragedy Online started in response to the UK lockdown and is a long-lost twin of A Bit Lit! In this film, Paul O’Mahony speaks to the actor Evelyn Miller and the classics professor Joel Christensen about bringing actors and academics together to explore Greek tragedy, creative and intellectual responses to panic, the anachronistic potential of classical plays, and liveness and asynchronicity in online performance.  We also hear about big questions: what is the necessity of art, what does it mean to be human, how can remote performance generate community? Plus the cathartic appeal, in the midst of recent news cycles, of simply “doing some wailing”!