Marbles Reunited: the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
The Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London,
warmly invites you to
The Parthenon in Poetry
an evening to celebrate the generous gift of the archive of
Marbles Reunited to the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
Monday 6 March 2006, 7.00pm
The Greeat Hall, Strand Campus
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
A reception will follow.
tel: 020 7313 8921
email: events@greeceinbritain.org.uk
| Programme | |
| 7.00 - 7.15 | |
| Introduction | Dr Karim Arafat, Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London |
| Archival Collections at King's | Patricia Methven, Director of Archives & Information Management, King's College London |
| The Archives of the BCRPM | Professor Anthony Snodgrass, Chairman, British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles |
| 7.15 - 8.00 | |
| The Parthenon in Poetry | Dr Liana Giannakopoulou, Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London |
| Poetry Readings | Greg Hicks and Peter Eyer |
| 8.00 - 8.15 | |
| The Acropolis on Film | A short montage of early films, courtesy of the Greek Literary & Historical Archive (ELIA) |
| Concluding Remarks | Dr Victoria Solomonidis FKC, Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of Greece & UK Representative, Hellenic Foundation for Culture |
Peter Eyer has been seen this last year in 3 notable productions, for which he has received considerable attention. He was the Grand Inquisitor in Schiller's Don Carlos at the Gielgud Theatre, the Duke of York opposite Kevin Spacey's Richard II at the Old Vic and, most recently, as Old Ekdal in Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Donmar.His many appearances in the theatre include plays by Racine, Moliere, Ibsen, Tchekov, Strinberg, as well as Shakespeare, and contemporary playwrights Bond and Barnes.
His adaptation of the Flaubert - Sand correspondence Chère Maître, which he performed in New York and London, has recently been seen in Paris starring Marie-France Pisier. Peter is a frequent visitor of Greece.
George Pyrpasopoulos is the grandson of the legendary actress Marika Nezer. Born in Australia in 1974, he began his professional career at the age of 16 and since then has been much in demand; he has appeared in a broad range of roles on the stage, cinema and television, becoming one of the most popular actors of his generation. In February 2001, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Notos Theatre production of Much Ado about Nothing at the Riverside Studios in London and, as an Equity member, he has also worked at the Old Vic in recent productions of Julius Caesar and Othello. He has just completed a very successful run at the National Theatre (Athens) as Mephistopheles in Marlowe's Dr Faustus.
Event co-organised and sponsored by The Hellenic Foundation for Culture
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