Greek playwright Euripides’ original themes around the duality of man’s nature are explored in a new, hallucinatory co-collaboration and The Bacchae completely subverts the original play. Adena Jacobs directs a group of female actors and musicians, who play a group of teenagers who pray to the god Dionysus for salvation in the arms of excess.
Around them, a plague rages and all they’ve known turns to dust. A god arrives in the guide of a mortal, and as the boundaries collapse, the binaries between old, young, boy, girl, human, beast, good and bad come through.
St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre – where the cast of 21 female actors practice – joined Theatre Works for this co-production. Jacobs worked with a cast of nine from St Martins in her previous play, On the Bodily Education of Young Girls , and in this play, continues her exploration of lost innocence and primal fury.
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Theatre Works
14 Acland St
St Kilda VIC 3182
Date: from 14 to 24 October 2015
Price: from $35
Website: Melbourne festival
Telephone: (02) 9534 3388
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