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 "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

A volume in the new Janus series edited by Paul Cartledge, on Greek tragedy and the new millenium

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

An article on the cold War, the "threat" of neutrality, and the example of Melos

publications

• The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy
• "Before, Behind, Beyond: Tragic Space and Euripides' Heracles" in Euripides: Proceedings of the Banff Conference, ed. M. Cropp, K. Lee, and D. Sansone (forthcoming).
• "Public Spaces, Private Voices: Sophocles' Electra and Euripides' Suppliant Women" Drama 4 (1996): 49-61.
• "Choral Presence, Absence, and Interaction in Euripides" Arion (1996) 45-60.
• "Theatre de Complicite: An Appreciation" TheatreForum 6 (1995) 88-96.
• Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (1994).
• Greek Tragic Theatre (1992, revised 1994).
• "Medea and the Logos of the Heroic" Eranos 87 (1989): 97-115.