Rush Rehm

Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University, Rush Rehm is the author of Aeschylus' Oresteia: A Theatre Version (Melbourne 1978), Greek Tragic Theatre (Routledge: London 1992), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (Princeton 1994), The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (Princeton 2002), and Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World (Duckworth: London 2003).

Recent contributions to edited volumes include “Aeschylus” and “Sophocles”, in Space in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Vol. 3, ed. I.J.F de Jong (Leiden and Boston, forthcoming 2011); “Ritual in Sophocles,” in Brill Companion to Sophocles, ed. A. Markantonatos (Leiden and Boston, forthcoming 2011); “Translating Space: The Pram Factory Oresteia,” in Close Relations: The Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre, edd. J.M. Griffiths, P. Monaghan, F. Sear (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2011); “Tragedy and Privilege,” in The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, ed. J.R.C. Cousland and J.R. Hume, Mnemosyne Supplement 314 (Leiden and Boston 2009) 235-253; “The Future of Dramatic Literature,” in Text and Presentation 28, ed. S. Constantinidis (2008) 216-18; “‘If you are a woman’: Theatrical Womanizing in Sophocles’ Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona’s The Island,” in Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, edd. C. Gillispie and L. Hardwick (Cambridge 2007; paperback 2010) 211-27; "Festivals and Audiences in Athens and Rome," in Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre, edd. M. Walton and M. McDonald (Cambridge 2007) 184-201; “Antigone and Family Values,” Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and Burial, Family and State in Classical Athens, ed. C.B. Patterson (Helios 2006 Supplement) 187-218; “Cassandra--The Prophetess Unveiled,” in Agamemnon in Performance, edd. E. Hall and F. McIntosh (Oxford 2006) 343-58; "Sophocles on Fire--To Pyr in Philoctetes," in Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax, and the Greek Language, eds. I.J.F. de Jong and A. Rijksbaron (Leiden: Brill 2006) 95-107; "Festivals and Audiences in Athens and Rome", in Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre, eds. M. Walton and M. McDonald (Cambridge 2006); "Cassandra--The Prophetess Unveiled" in Agamemnon in Performance, eds. E. Hall and F. McIntosh (Oxford 2006); "Sophocles on Fire" in Sophocles and the Greek Language, eds. I. de Jong and A. Rijksbaron (Leiden: Brill 2006); “Introduction,” R.C Jebb’s commentary, Oedipus at Colonus (London: Duckworth 2004).

He also directs and acts professionally, serving as Artistic Director of Stanford Summer Theater. A political activist, Rush is involved in anti-war and anti-imperialist actions, and in solidarity campaigns with Palestine, Cuba, East Timor, and Nicaragua. 

Current projects

Stanford Summer Theater 2011 Memory Play, including productions of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (director), Harold Pinter's Old Times (actor), and Seneca's Oedipus (producer), April - August, 2011

Directing West Coast premieres of Carl Djerassi's Taboos (February 2011) and Foreplay  (staged reading, March 2011)

Directing George Packer's Betrayed (May 2011), part of Stanford's Ethics in Society Ethics and War series

Essay in Greek Tragedy in America, edd. K. Bosher, F. Macintosh, J. McConnell, and P. Rankine (Northwestern)

Contributions on "Space" and "Clytemnestra", in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (Oxford)

A volume in the new Duckworth series on Greek tragedy, on Euripides' Electra 

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