Ancient Drama Prize 2022

Watch last year's winning entries

In 2021 the Faculty of Classics, in partnership with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), invited young people aged 11 - 18 from across the UK to perform a piece of ancient drama or deliver a spoken word composition.

A judging panel of academics and performing arts professionals were delighted to watch nearly 100 short films. The quality of performance was consistently high, and it was a very difficult task indeed to whittle the entries down to our winners below.

Prize winners' podcast

Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Senior Research Fellow in Classics Education, chats with the winners of the faculty's exciting new performance competition for young people from across the UK. Listen in here:  https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/classics-faculty-ancient-drama-prize-2022, and it's also on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/381700722

Prize Winners

Category

 Winner Performance Finalists
Solo - Translation

Bianca Khanna

St Helen's School, Northwood

From the Prologue of Menander's the Grouch

source: website - Poetry in Translation

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/cdIbL6AxjyI

Leora, of Maidstone Grammar School For Girls

 

Florence, of Wirral Grammar School for Girls
       
Solo – Spoken Word

Sydney Mann

Harris Academy, Greenwich

A reading of the poem "Icarus" by Kae Tempest

 

Freddie, of St Ambrose College, Trafford

 

Emanuel, of St Ambrose College, Trafford

 

 
       
Group – Translation

Aiko Hoshiko, Grace Barry, Isla Partlett

Wirral Grammar School for Girls

Robert Fagles' translation (1984) of Sophocles' Antigone

John, Timothy and Herb

Wallington County Grammar School 

 

William, Abel and Niccolo

Dulwich College, London