„The Clouds” – Questions&Answers

Post-performance Q&A chaired by M. J. Coldiron with actors of Aristophanes “The Clouds”, Edith Hall, Yana Sistovari 
25.05.2025 (Sunday)/12:30 pm/ Stage in The Palace

Yana Zarifi-Sistovari is founder and Artistic Director of Thiasos Theatre Company, working with Greek plays through the lens of non-western theatre traditions. Yana is Research Associate with the APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) and academic consultant to Gardzienice CTP (Centre of Theatre Practices.) She has contributed articles on ancient Greek dance and the chorus to several prestigious publications. Together with M.J. Coldiron she has staged the Hippolytos (1998/2016) i Bacchae (2003/2017) Ploutos (1999/2020) Peace (2001) and Cyclops (2024). Costumes p for these plays are on show in the Gardzienice Palace.

MJ Coldiron is a theatre director, performer, teacher and a specialist in Asian and intercultural performance and masks. She trained as an actress at the Drama Centre, London and performed throughout the United States with the National Shakespeare Company. She has taught and directed for professional actor-training programmes in the US and UK and published widely. Her research interests focus on the transmission of embodied knowledge in intercultural performance and she has been Associate Director of Thiasos since 1997.

Edith Hall has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Reading, Durham and Oxford. She currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the Centre for Hellenistic Studies at King’s College London. She was also co-founder of the Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford. Her publications appear in The Times and the Times Literary Supplement; she is a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programmes. Her major works include: Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy (1989), an edition of Aeschylus’ Persians (1996), The Theatrical Cast of Athens (2006), The Return of Ulysses (2008), Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (2010) and Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy (2013).

fot. Maciej Dziaczko