{"id":163,"date":"2013-02-28T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/st-olaf-latin-plays\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T22:09:15","slug":"st-olaf-ancient-plays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/st-olaf-ancient-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tradition of Ancient Plays at St. Olaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo02-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5145\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5145\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/st-olaf-ancient-plays\/curculio-2016-photo02-cropped\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo02-cropped.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"539,1009\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1457733359&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.295&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Curculio 2016 photo02 cropped\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo02-cropped.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5145\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo02-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Curculio 2016 photo02 cropped\" width=\"150\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/st-olaf-ancient-plays\/curculio-2016-photo13-cropped\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo13-cropped.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"762,1135\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1457734689&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;14.303&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Curculio 2016 photo13 cropped\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo13-cropped-687x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/files\/2013\/02\/Curculio-2016-photo13-cropped-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Curculio 2016 photo13 cropped\" width=\"188\" height=\"280\" \/>Every other year, St. Olaf students perform one of Plautus&#8217; Roman comedies or one of Menander&#8217;s Greek comedies in a musical mixture of English\/Latin or English\/Greek.\u00a0Each performance runs 50-55 minutes with no intermission. The troupe goes on tour to\u00a0other schools in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Most recent production: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/curculio-2016\/\">Plautus&#8217; <em>Curculio <\/em><\/a>(2016). At left the slave Palinurus takes his master&#8217;s dogs for a\u00a0walk; at right Curculio\u00a0wears a\u00a0furry disguise. Upcoming production: Menander&#8217;s <em>Dyskolos<\/em> (March 7-10, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>For more on the plays, see this article in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/didaskalia.net\/issues\/vol2no3\/groton.html\">Didaskalia<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0DVD&#8217;s are available from the director, <a href=\"mailto:groton@stolaf.edu\">Prof. Anne Groton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every other year, St. Olaf students perform one of Plautus&#8217; Roman comedies or one of Menander&#8217;s Greek comedies in a musical mixture of English\/Latin or English\/Greek.\u00a0Each performance runs 50-55 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6492,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}