ReTAGS Speaker Series | Act 6 | Ubah Cristina Ali-Farah & Margherita Laera
Act 6 of the ReTAGS Speaker Series.
"In Conversation... Antigone and Medea"
In this Speaker Series, Margherita Laera (University of Kent) is in conversation with playwright Ubah Cristina Ali-Farah about her Antigone and Medea projects.
Presented in person (APGRD, Oxford University) and online (Zoom meeting) on Tuesday 26 September 2023 at 17:00 SAST. Chaired by Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Please note, the video has been edited to remove the Q&A section.
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Ubah Cristina Ali-Farah is a Somali Italian poet, novelist, playwright, librettist and oral performer. She has published three novels, Madre piccola (Little mother); Il comandante del fiume (The commander of the river); and Le stazioni della luna (The stations of the moon).
Margherita Laera’s is an award-winning scholar specialising in translation and adaptation for the stage, and contemporary European performance, especially in Italy. She is also a professional arts journalist and theatre translator. Margherita's research interests include contemporary theatre in Europe, especially in Italy; adaptation and translation for the stage; ‘classical’ Greek tragedy and its modern appropriations; theatre criticism; theatre and ideology. Margherita studied Classics, Comparative Literature and Theatre/Performance Studies in Milan, Paris and London. Margherita is the Co-Director, with Professor Paul Allain, of the European Theatre Research Network, a partnership of three universities committed to researching theatre and performance practices in modern and contemporary Europe.
