'Interactive/Multimedia E-Books for the Performance Archive'

“表演档案的互动/多媒体电子书”将使世界上任何地方的任何人在任何时间都能访问位于牛津大学的希腊和罗马戏剧表演档案（APGRD）的丰富藏品；一旦下载，交互式/多媒体电子书可以在任何空间访问，无需连接互联网。这些互动式/多媒体电子书将以香港文化协会资助的研究团队对古代戏剧在现代舞台上的历史进行的研究为基础，配以音频、视频和各种戏剧纪念品。作为国际知名的古代戏剧演出史研究中心，上海戏曲博物馆收藏了从古代到现在的古代戏剧表演的独特而丰富的资料。至关重要的是，它的藏品应该被更广泛地获取，而不是像现在这样，只对那些可以参观牛津经典中心的人开放。交互式/多媒体电子书将使我们能够使用全新的技术——例如，平板电脑技术作为电子书的观看平台，只有4年的历史。运用这些尖端科技，互动/多媒体电子书不但能扩大读者群；它还将使我们能够同时与不同类型的受众进行交流，通过互动/多媒体电子书建立不同层次和途径的可能性。因此，我们将能够与更年轻的观众交流，并扩大我们与世界各地的戏剧观众和从业者的对话，在这些地方，古老的戏剧在表演曲目中享有同样重要的地位。第一个互动/多媒体电子书将是欧里皮得斯的美狄亚，并将借鉴和扩展印刷版《美狄亚在1500-2000年的表演》（由伊迪丝·霍尔、菲奥娜·麦金托什和奥利弗·塔普林编辑，牛津2000）的内容；第二卷将集中在埃斯库罗斯的阿伽门农，并将建立在阿伽门农的内容在表演：公元前458年至公元2005年（编辑菲奥娜麦金托什，潘泰利斯米切拉基斯，伊迪丝霍尔和奥利弗塔plin，牛津2005）。在多媒体/互动形式下，通过使用APGRD馆藏中的戏剧蜉蝣、照片、音频和视频材料，以及新近委托对专门研究古代戏剧及其在现代舞台上的后世的戏剧从业者和学者的采访，将大大加强印刷书籍中所包含的研究。最终目的是制作互动式/多媒体电子书，以配合研究人员出版的所有出版物（迄今已出版16本），并为其他项目提供一个制作类似材料的平台。

'Interactive/Multimedia E-books for the Performance Archive' will enable anyone, anywhere in the world and at any time, to access the rich collections of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), based at the University of Oxford; and once downloaded, the interactive/multimedia e-book can be accessed in any space, without Internet connection. Illustrated with audio, video and theatrical memorabilia of various kinds, the interactive/multimedia e-books will be based on previous AHRC-funded research conducted by the APGRD team on the history of the ancient plays on the modern stage. As an internationally renowned centre for the study of the performance history of ancient drama, the APGRD has a unique and very rich collection of materials related to the performance of ancient drama from antiquity to the present. It is essential that its holdings are made more widely available and not simply accessible to those who can visit the Classics Centre in Oxford, as is currently the case. The interactive/multimedia e-books will enable us to work with brand-new technologies - tablet technology as a viewing platform for the e-book, for example, is only 4 years old. Using these cutting edge technologies, the interactive/multimedia e-book will not only expand our audience base; it will also enable us to communicate simultaneously with different types of audience, through the possibility of building different levels and pathways through the interactive/multimedia e-book. We will therefore be able to communicate with much younger audiences as well as extend our dialogue with theatre goers and practitioners around the globe, where the ancient plays enjoy equal prominence within the performance repertoire. The first of the interactive/multimedia e-books will be on Euripides' Medea, and will draw on and extend the content of the print volume Medea in Performance 1500-2000 (edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin, Oxford 2000); and the second volume will be focused on Aeschylus' Agamemnon and will be built upon the contents of Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2005 (edited by Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall and Oliver Taplin, Oxford 2005). In multimedia/interactive form, the research contained within the print books will be considerably enhanced both by the use of theatrical ephemera, photographic, audio and video material already housed in the APGRD's collections and by newly commissioned interviews with theatre practitioners and scholars specialising in ancient drama and its afterlife on the stage in the modern world. The aim is ultimately to produce interactive/multimedia e-books to accompany all publications published by researchers at the APGRD (16 have been published to date) and to provide a platform for other projects to produce similar materials.