Welcome to the ReTAGS (Reimagining Tragedy in Africa and the Global South) official website. Here you will find all the current and upcoming news and information surrounding the project. Keep up to date with our Postgraduate Fellows, live and online events, workshops and symposiums. For those more interested in the research being undertaken we invite you to visit our online showcase repository: here you can engage with our field research audio interviews, production clips, rehearsal footage, theatre adaptations of Tragedy on the African continent and even contribute to our research.
ReTAGS Conference 2023
Join the ReTAGS project-culminating symposium in November 2023. Two days of discussions and showcases of creative and critical work focussed on the themes of Art, Activism, Archival and Academic enquiries.
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ReTAGS Hybrid Conference with Oxford University
The APGRD (University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics) and ReTAGS are co-hosting a hybrid conference in Oxford's Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
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Helsinki prize at the IFTR 2023
ReTAGS PhD Scholar, Lesego Chauke, has won the Helsinki Prize at the IFTR 2023 for her essay “Live and Proclaim!": Mourning as Resistance in the Context of Pervasive Death in Mark Fleishman’s Antigone (Not Quite/Quiet)’.
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APPLICANT CALL: SHORT-TERM DIGITAL HUMANITIES FELLOW 2023
ReTAGS research team seeks to award a short-term Digital Humanities Fellowship to re-engage and reimagine the project’s archival material and produce a digital output for our online project platform.
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iKrele leChiza at The Baxter
Award-winning director, Mandla Mbothwe’s acclaimed, iKrele leChiza…the sermon, fires up The Baxter Flipside, from 23 March to 8 April 2023 at 7.30pm, following its hugely successful debut run last year.
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Oedipus at Colonus: #aftersophocles
The Baxter, in collaboration with Magnet Theatre is very excited to present a brand-new play, called Oedipus at Colonus: #aftersophocles. The play is directed by Mark Fleishman, and performed by Andrew Buckland, Jennie Reznek, Faniswa Yisa
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