Bibliographic record
Abstract
Harrison’s engagement with ancient drama is not just textual and thematic; Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, The Labourers of Herakles, and The Kaisers of Carnuntum strove to re-create elements of original fifth-century Athenian performance conditions with one-off, ephemeral productions and open air-settings. This was a deliberate progression from Harrison’s Oresteia, directed by Peter Hall, which had explored the use of masks and an all-male ensemble, but in a conventional indoor setting, across a longer run. This chapter considers the stagecraft of Harrison’s early work, from the material setting of the productions to the performance style developed by the actors, including their vocal style, direct address, and the use of dance (particularly clogging). Drawing on interviews with original company members, including the subsequent work of director Barrie Rutter at Northern Broadsides, and the experience for actors of being involved in such ground-breaking work, it looks at the development of Harrison’s stagecraft, particularly when he began to direct his own productions. The political dimension of Harrison’s stagecraft, including the visibility of the audience, is explored. Inevitable compromises, such as the extended run of Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, initially designed as a one-off event, are considered, as are the tensions between Harrison’s artistic and intellectual project and the wider theatre community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".