Thursday 17 March 2022 4:00pm
About
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A zoom presentation by Shivaike Shah of Khameleon Productions
Thursday 17th March
4-5pm
To be streamed in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics
Zoom link for remote attendance:
https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93475246276?pwd=elNibEJSVzVHMGtXMG1tL1Jsc3ZVdz09
Khameleon Productions was founded in 2020, based on a production company built at Oxford University. Drawing on theatre, music and film, the company develops innovative productions that celebrate the creative power of diverse voices. Their Medea reimagines Euripides’s Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew, and features original compositions, movement and spoken word commissioned by the company.
Khameleon’s current projects, part-funded by Cambridge Classics, include an upcoming short film adaptation of Medea, set for release on the film festival circuit in 2022, and the Khameleon Classics podcast, where host Shivaike Shah speaks to experts about some of the most urgent questions facing the study of Classics today.
The Uprooting Medea presentation will introduce Khameleon’s Medea project and discuss the development and adaptation of the work since its original conception in Oxford. Khameleon’s Medea questions the pertinent topics of race, belonging and identity through centring these themes which are already prevalent in Euripides’s original. The presentation will explore their creative practice of elevating global-majority artists through multimedia forms including theatre, film, music and poetry. The presentation will give an insight into their upcoming short film project (to be released later in 2022), featuring excerpts and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage to bring to life their vision for Medea.
All welcome!
Find out more about Khameleon Productions on their website:
Event location:
G.19, Faculty of Classics / Zoom