|
|
DAVID STUTTARD |
|
Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
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.
Plays by David Stuttard
Agamemnon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Steiner, London | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Actors Of Dionysus | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33652 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aeschylus | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Lysistrata | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Castle, Wellingborough | 14 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | aod | |||||
| 1st Published: | Duckworth Academic and Bristol Classical Press, London | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1853997365 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121757 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Oedipus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54683 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
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? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Trojan Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Ding Millers | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71719 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
