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School, where they used to do these dramas IN ancient Greek, and in those days without
surtitles.
Figure 11: A “Scene from the Tempest”
Figure 12: The Greek theatre, Bradfield College
I was hooked very early—by the emotional power of the stories, as well as by the com-
munal nature of the event: a crowd experiencing an ancient story together in a way the
Greeks would have done in Epidaurus in 400BC, more than two millennia ago.
I now turn to classic personal influences, particularly the work Brecht, Wagner and Ar-
taud—who although professing different theories—were all attempting to realise the
power of theatre through emotional or intellectual frameworks, or a mixture of both.
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