MedeaX Talk: What’s in a version? Cultural translation of antiquity onto stage

The team behind Medea are delighted to present MedeaX, a festival of creativity that will feature exciting and exclusive talks, workshops and events.

On Thursday evening, we will have a post-show talk with Dr Shushma Mailk followed by a Q&A facilitated by Director Dhyan Ruparel and Associate Director Cían Sutton-Johal. Dr Malik will talk about what creative practitioners have tried to achieve when adapting ancient plays, and how important issues of contemporary culture have become to the retellings of familiar stories.

Shushma Malik is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and the Onassis Classics Fellow at Newnham College. She specialises in Roman history and classical reception studies, and she has published on topics relating to political and literary culture. She is the author of The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (2020) and co-editor of Representing Rome’s Emperors: Cultural and Historical Perspectives through Time (2024).

Please note that tickets for this talk are free but must be booked in advance. Please also note that attendees of the talk must have a valid ticket for Medea (this can be for any performance, rather than exclusively Thursday evening). You can book tickets for Medea here.

Times

Thu 7 May at 9:45pm

Duration

45 minutes

Venue

ADC Theatre

Tickets

Free

The ADC Theatre is Britain's oldest University playhouse, today administered and maintained by the University of Cambridge. Plays have been presented on the site since 1855, when the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club (CUADC) was founded, and the society met and performed in the back room of the Hoop Inn, which stood almost exactly where the ADC Theatre stands today. Today, the ADC Theatre is the centre of University drama in Cambridge, run almost entirely by students with no Faculty involvement.

Access

When you arrive at the ADC Theatre, there are power assisted doors to the Box Office. In the foyer there is a lift which leads up to the bar and auditorium. The accessible toilet is located on the ground floor across the foyer. Further information can be found here.

If you are booking a wheelchair seat in the ADC auditorium for the first time, please call the Box Office on 01223 300085 or email access@adctheatre.com. We will then alter the permissions of your ADC account so that you can access the wheelchair seats on our website when you book in the future.

Complimentary tickets are available for full-time carers.

The ADC Theatre and Corpus Playroom is fitted with an infra-red audio system designed to help deaf and hard of hearing patrons. If you are using the system for the first time, please arrive early and seek advice from our Front of House team.

Assistance dogs are welcome in both of our venues. Please call the Box Office or email the above address when booking to ensure you are seated appropriately.

If you are travelling by car, you can use the Park Street car park (2 minute walk), the Grand Arcade car park (10 minute walk) or the Castle Hill car park (15 minute walk). You can find out more information here.