Do What You Must
after Thucydidies
The strong do what they want and the weak just have to suck it up. Right?
But who is who?
For centuries, the People In Power have used Thucydides' Melian Dialogue to justify their self-serving belief that might makes right. But what if they've been reading it wrong?
This dramatic interrogation and repurposing of The Melian Dialogue is conceived to challenge the way we think about power, responsibility and justice.
The performance will be followed by a free panel discussion with Professor Neville Morley (University of Exeter), Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) and Dr Emma Cole (University of Bristol).
Do What You Must is an Arch 468 collaboration with fanSHEN and Exeter University.
Funded by the AHRC.
A glimpse into the making process for our AHRC funded collaboration with Professor Neville Morley from the University of Exeter. Filmed by Mengting Zhuo.
Creative Team
Rebecca Atkinson-Lord
Director
Rebecca read Ancient History and Classics at Bristol University, before training as a Director at RADA. She is an award winning film and theatre maker who directs, writes and produces theatre across three continents. She is the founding Artistic Director of Arch 468 and from 2010 – 2016 was Co-Director of Theatre at Ovalhouse.
Evie Ayres-Townshend
Assistant Director
Evie is a theatre maker and recent English Literature graduate from King’s College London. She is interested in work that disrupts the notions of what we think of as theatre, as well as performances that confront and challenge what it means to be an audience member.
Angela Clerkin
Cast
Angela Clerkin is an actor and theatre maker. Acting includes: Dear Elizabeth (Gate Theatre); The Secret Keeper (UK Tour); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Playhouse); Panic (Barbican, Sydney Opera House); Coronation St; Dr Who; Humans; EastEnders. She runs Through The Door, improvisation workshops for women and enbys, supported by Improbable & Globe Theatre. ClerkinWorks.com
James Shannon
Student Observer
James is a student at Royal Holloway, currently studying Classical Studies and Drama. This is his first involvement in professional theatre, but at university he has produced productions of Antigone and Romeo and Juliet, as well as performed in productions of Thyestes, Woyzeck, and Coriolanus.
Mengting Zhuo
Videographer
Mengting is a Chinese theatre artist and filmmaker based in London, with a MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University. She works at the intersection of lens and liveness, and is interested in chance and contingency. For her videography work: MengMakes.com
Yana Penrose
Cast
Yana graduated from ALRA. Credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regent's Park Open Air); Hansel and Gretel, Jack, A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre); Ballad Of Rudy (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and Humans (Channel 4). Her debut play Daddy Issues received a seed commission from Camden People’s Theatre, and was recently part of the Royal Courts Young Writers programme.
Milo Quinton
Cast
Milo trained at the Urdang Academy, Sylvia Young Theatre School and The National Youth Theatre.
Milo began his performing career at the age of seven in Cameron MacKintosh’s West End productionof Oliver! He has since performed in multiple stage productions including Little Eyolf directed by Ragnhild Lund as well as Coriolanus and the Duchess of Malfi both directed by Rodney Cottier.
Milo’s screen credits include The Pit, Coffin Grabber, Black Dust, The Ringer and starring as Buncefor Stephen Fry’s Little Cracker: Bunce on Sky One. Milo recently performed in Aladdin the pantomime at Theatre Royal Windsor and previously worked with fanSHEN on the short film If I were you.
Jamie Zubairi
Cast
Trained: LAMDA. Theatre: Dogs & Getting Married (OvalHouse); Beauty Sleeps (Young Vic) Wolf (Edinburgh); Witness For The Prosecution (West End). Television: Eastenders, Holby City, Cucumber. Writing Credits: Unbroken Line (Ovalhouse), Tides (Open Palm Films). Radio includes: The Inspector Chen Series.
