All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Admission to the Getty Villa is FREE. Advance, timed tickets are required and can be obtained online or by calling (310) 440-7300. Groups of nine or more must make reservations by phone.
Hippolytos
Award-winning playwright and director Stephen Sachs stages a new translation of Euripides' masterpiece by classicist and poet Anne Carson. Tickets $38; students/seniors $32 (previews $15). Call (310) 440-7300 for tickets.
Performances: Thursdays, September 7, 14, and 21; Fridays, September 8, 15, and 22; and Saturdays, September 9, 16, and 23, 8:00 p.m.
Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa
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Phaedra
The Antaeus Company presents Seneca's Phaedra, a Roman version of the story of the Greek myth, directed by Stephanie Shroyer. Rarely staged, Seneca's retelling puts a dark and horrific spin on the famous story of lust, guilt, and bloody retribution.
Tickets available beginning Tuesday, October 24, at at 9:00 a.m. Limit of four seats per reservation.
Friday, November 17, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 18, 4:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Curators lead one-hour gallery talks on the exhibition. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance a half hour before the talk.
Gabriella de la Rosa, research assistant, the Getty Research Institute
Friday, September 1, 3:00 p.m.
David Brafman, curator of rare books, the Getty Research Institute
Friday, September 15, 3:00 p.m.
Roberta Panzanelli, senior research specialist, the Getty Research Institute
Friday, October 27, 3:00 p.m.
Mary Louise Hart, assistant curator of antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum
Friday, November 10, 3:00 p.m.
Reimagining Euripides' Hippolytos
Euripides' Hippolytos presents special challenges to those attempting to stage or revise the play for modern audiences, such as Hippolytos's obsessive devotion to chastity; the powerful role of punitive gods in the action; staging the Greek chorus; or representing Phaidra in an era in which female roles have changed dramatically.
In this scholarly presentation, Helen P. Foley, professor of classics at Barnard College, Columbia University, looks at how a limited selection of performances and revisions of the original in English have tried to make Hippolytos compelling for a modern audience. Examples will range from Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and H.D.'s Hippolytus Temporizes to Tony Harrison's Phaedra Britannica, Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love, and other less familiar productions.
Tickets available beginning Thursday, August 24, at 9:00 a.m.
Thursday, September 21, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
North Campus Meeting Rooms, Getty Villa
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Hippolytos and Phaidra in Ancient Art
Pascale Linant de Bellefonds, University of Paris, explores how the tragedy of Hippolytos and Phaidra was represented in different ancient contexts.
Tickets available beginning Thursday, September 21, at 9:00 a.m.
Thursday, October 12, 8:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Hippolytos and Phaedra in Film, Theater, Dance, and Music
William Zewadski, noted expert on ancient art of the theater in art and film, surveys motifs of the Hippolytos myth as interpreted on stage and screen. His lecture is followed by Gregory J. Markopoulos's film Twice a Man (1963). Inspired by the myth, the movie reinvents cinematic and literary paradigms and features a very young Olympia Dukakis.
Tickets available beginning Thursday, September 21, at 9:00 a.m.
Thursday, November 2, 8:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Phaedra (1962, Jules Dassin)
In this modern film version of the ancient tragedy, Melina Mercouri plays the wife of a Greek shipping magnate who falls desperately in love with her husband's son, played by Anthony Perkins.
Tickets available beginning Thursday, September 21, at 9:00 a.m.
Friday, November 3, 8:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Michael Hackett, professor of theater at UCLA, discusses theatrical interpretations of the Hippolytos story. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance a half hour before the talk.
Thursday, November 9, 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
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Past Exhibitions
