Open Access Journal: Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient Performance

[First posted in AWOL 2 November 2009. Updated 2 August 2012.  n.b.  Founded in 1994, Didaskalia is a Pioneering Open Access Journal]

Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient Performance

ISSN: 1321-4853

Didaskalia (διδασκαλία) is the term used since ancient times to describe the work a playwright did to teach his chorus and actors the play.  The official records of the dramatic festivals in Athens were the διδασκαλίαι.  Didaskalia now furthers the scholarship of the ancient performance.


Didaskalia is an English-language, online publication about the performance of Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music.  We publish peer-reviewed scholarship on performance and reviews of the professional activity of artists and scholars who work on ancient drama.


We welcome submissions on any aspect of the field.  If you would like your work to be reviewed, please write to editor@didaskalia.net at least three weeks in advance of the performance date.  We also seek interviews with practitioners and opinion pieces.

Volume 9 (2012)

9.04	Review: The Complete Works of Sophocles (Rebridged): These Seven Sicknesses George Kovacs
9.03	Review: Alexis, A Greek Tragedy Aktina Stathaki
9.02	Review: Lysistrata Jones John Given
9.01	Risk-taking and Transgression: Aristophanes' Lysistrata Today Michael Ewans and Robert Phiddian

Volume 8 8.31 ADIP I - Euripides' Hecuba: the Text and the Event Kenneth Reckford 8.30 ADIP I - The Delayed Feast: the Festival Context of Plautus’ Pseudolus Laura Banducci 8.29 ADIP I - Staging the Reconciliation Scene of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata John Given 8.28 ADIP I - Compassion in Chorus and Audience Paul Woodruff 8.27 ADIP I - Performing the "Unperformable" Extispicy Scene in Seneca's Oedipus Rex Eric Dodson-Robinson 8.26 ADIP I - Double the Message Diane J. Rayor 8.25 ADIP I - A Gestural Phallacy David J. Jacobson 8.24 ADIP I - The Twice Born and One More: Portraying Dionysus in the Bacchae Jaclyn Dudek 8.23 ADIP I - Adapting Hecuba: Where Do Problems Begin? Nancy Nanney 8.22 ADIP I - Play in the Sunshine Jennifer S. Starkey 8.21 ADIP I - Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice Amy R. Cohen 8.20 Review: Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses at the Chopin Theater Teresa M. Danze Lemieux 8.19 Review: Seneca's Oedipus at the Stanford Summer Theater David J. Jacobson 8.18 Storm in a Teacup: an Exercise in Performance Reception in Twenty-First-Century Israel Lisa Maurice 8.17 Interview: Theater of War Amy R. Cohen and Brett M. Rogers 8.16 Review: Medea at the Long Beach Opera Yoko Kurahashi 8.15 Review: 47th Season of Classical Plays at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse Caterina Barone 8.14 Review: Orestes Terrorist at the University of California, Santa Cruz Fiona Macintosh 8.13 The Masked Chorus in Action—Staging Euripides' Bacchae Chris Vervain 8.12 Masks in the Oxford Greek Play 2008: Theory and Practice Claire Catenaccio 8.11 KOSKY - "Toothless intellectuals," "the misery of the poor," "poetry after Auschwitz," and the White, Middle-class Audience: the Moral Perils of Kosky and Wright's The Women of Troy (or, how do we regard the pain of others?) Marguerite Johnson 8.10 KOSKY - The Women of Troy—New and Old Michael Ewans 8.09 KOSKY - The Women of Troy: Barrie Kosky's "operatic" version of Euripides Michael Halliwell 8.08 KOSKY - Delivering the Message in Kosky's The Women of Troy Helen Slaney 8.07 KOSKY - The Women of Troy: Barrie Kosky, The Sydney Theatre Company, and Classical Theatre in Australia Elizabeth Hale, guest editor 8.06 Interview: Satyrs in L.A. Mary Hart 8.05 Review: Hecuba at Randolph College Jaclyn Dudek 8.04 Review: A Man Who Hates People at Trent University and the University of Toronoto Donald Sells 8.03 Review: The Brothers Menaechmus at East Carolina University Amy R. Cohen 8.02 Review: 45th Season of Classical Plays at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse Caterina Barone 8.01 Introducing Volume 8 and Remembering Douglass Parker Amy R. Cohen

 Back Issues
7.02 - Close Relations (2009)
7.01 - Masks (Winter 2007)
6.03 - Responses to Ancient Drama in Contemporary Performance (Autumn 2006)
6.02 - Contemporary Electronic Research Initiatives (Summer 2005)
6.01 - Developments and Trends in Contemporary Research (Spring 2004)
5.03 - Electra (Summer 2002)
5.02 - Tantalus (Autumn 2001)
5.01 - Otago (Summer 2001)
4.02 - General Issue (Autumn 2001)
4.01 - Crossing the Ancient Stage (Spring 1997)
3.03 - The Performance of Homeric Epic (Winter 1996)
3.02 - General Issue (Autumn 1996)
3.01 - General Issue (Spring 1996)
2.03 - Roman Stagings (Winter 1995)
2.02 - Ancient Stagecraft (Autumn 1995)
2.01 - New Ancient Theater (February 1995)
1.06 - Supplement 1 - How is it Played? Genre, Performance and Meaning
1.05 - Embodying Ancient Theater (December 1994)
1.04 - Fusing Greek and Asian Drama (October 1994)
1.03 - Translating for the Stage II (August 1994)
1.02 - Translating for the Stage I (May 1994)
1.01 - Founding Issue (March 1994)

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