A five-day workshop and performance of Aristophanes' Peace, directed by Marco Martinelli & Ermanna Montanari (Teatro delle Albe), and exploring a timely ancient comedy about a wine-maker, who, tired of the war, decides to take things in his own hands and flies up to Olympus to make a pact with the gods. 

The project brought together students from Parma, London, Bristol, and participants from Chickenshed’s education programmes, and culminated in two performances of a new version of Peace based on Giovanna Di Martino’s translation of the play. 

• Director: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari, Teatro delle Albe; 

• Dramaturg: Giovanna Di Martino. 

• Assistant Directors: Zoë Morris (Old Vic), Lucy Ruddiman (Bristol). 

• Participants: students from Chickenshed Theatre, UCL, the University of Bristol, and the University of Parma. Location: Chickenshed Theatre.

• Texts: Aristophanes, Peace

• Funding: Istituto Italiano di Cultura (London), UCL’s Centre for Humanities Education, Ravenna Teatro (Ravenna), the Leventis Foundation, the Gilbert Murray Trust, the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, the Classical Tradition, the Institute of Classical Studies, the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), the University of Parma-DUSIC, and the WIDE European Program.