with Avery Willis Hoffman, Fran Amewudah, and Shivaike Shah
In this episode, Shivaike Shah (left) and Fran Amewudah (middle) discuss their latest TORCH-funded project - reinventing and reimagining their successful 2018 student production of Medea with an all-BAME cast.
They are interviewed by longstanding associate, and former APGRD doctoral student, Dr Avery Willis Hoffman (above right; Program Director - Park Avenue Armory) who also produced a student Medea in Oxford in 2002.
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Speakers: Avery Willis Hoffman, Fran Amewudah, Shivaike Shah; introduced by Giovanna Di Martino.
Production: Giovanna Di Martino and Claire Barnes. Recorded in August 2020.
Transcript
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Mentioned in the episode
- Medea, a performance history - our free interactive/multimedia ebook (explore performances of Euripides' Medea through digitised archival material, video and audio clips, bespoke interviews with academics and creatives)
- The BAME Medea project at TORCH
- Watch the 2018 BAME Medea on the Faculty of Classics YouTube channel
- Shivaike Shah's website
- Avery Willis Hoffman's website
- Park Avenue Armory website
Accompanying blog post
Shivaike Shah and Fran Amewudah reflect further on the BAME Medea project in an accompanying post on the APGRD blog
Left: Production photograph of BAME Medea at the O'Reilly Theatre, Keble College, Oxford, 2018