Join is for a special conversation after the matinee performance of Iphigenia in Aulis on Saturday, September 19 at 2:00 pm. We’ll be talking about the resonance of ancient stories today, adaptation, and the human need for storytelling. And yes, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey movie. Join our guests facilitators, the artists and actors of theatre KAPOW, and audience members for this discussion.
Homer composed his epic poems around the 8th or 7th century BC. Euripides’ play Iphigenia in Aulis was first produced in 405 BC. Anne Washburn adapted it in 2015. tKAPOW is performing her play in 2026. What is it about these stories that makes us keep coming back to to them?
Dr. Meoghan Cronin is Professor of English and the Director of College Writing at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. She teaches Romantic and Victorian literature and advanced writing courses. Her research usually focuses on girls in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century British fiction. Her articles on these topics have appeared in Dickens Quarterly, Victorians Institute Journal, Essays in Criticism, and elsewhere, including in collections on Fathers in Victorian Fiction and Catholicism in Contemporary Literature. One of her current works-in-progress is about the American series of abridgements for children, the 1855-56 Dickens’ Little Folks, a set of pleasing but didactic stories with gender-coded messages about good and bad boys and girls.
Dr. Roxanne Gentilcore grew up in southern Ontario and attended the University of Toronto where she majored in English and Classics. She went on to attend graduate school in Classics at Boston University where her PhD focused on the influence of the Classics in Early American literature. Roxanne taught at the Universities of New Brunswick and Toronto. After returning to the U.S., Roxanne was on the faculty at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts before taking a position at St. Anselm College in 2005. While at St. A’s she has introduced scores of students to the joys of learning Latin (and a smaller number to the wisdom of the Ancient Greeks in their own tongue.) Her publications and research interests focus on Latin literature and the influence of the Classics on later literature. She lives with her husband in Massachusetts and has two daughters.
