Kaloi k'Agathoi

Kaloi k'Agathoi is a theatre company specialising in Classical drama and comedy. It is based in Herefordshire but operates throughout the UK. The company stages original adaptations of Ancient Greek plays, and has more recently begun developing an educational programme to promote and foster the teaching of Classical dramatic texts through drama.

As well as working with a diversity of artists, Kaloi k'Agathoi places an emphasis on community involvement in order to introduce new audiences to Classical theatre: in January 2007 it became a registered Community Interest Company.

The Name

Kaloi k'Agathoi is properly written in Ancient Greek (καλοι κ'αγαθοι), and is literally translated as "The Beautiful and the Good". The term is difficult to translate accurately, however, as it is the term used for ancient Athenian society, so "the Beautiful and the Good" could be said to lose this connoitation. Modern translations might be the "It-crowd" or "A-listers", but these too fail to convey the full meaning of the phrase as it would have been interpreted in Ancient Athens.

Plays

*2002 - Euripides' Elektra
*2002 - Aristophanes' Frogs
*2003 - Menander's Dyskolos ('The Old Git')
*2004 - Euripides' Hippolytus
*2005 - Euripides' Medea and Bacchae
*2006 - Sophocles' Philoctetes
*2007 - Aristophanes' Clouds

External links

* [http://www.kaloikagathoi.co.uk The official Kaloi k'Agathoi website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/kaloikagathoi Kaloi k'Agathoi's 'Myspace']
* [http://www.cathedralschool.hereford.sch.uk/site/Hippolytusreview.htm A review of the 2004 performance of Hippolytus]