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Euripides’ Bacchae

28-29 January 2022

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Holiness, you that pass over the earth with golden wing, do you hear of these deeds of Pentheus? Do you hear of his impious violence against Bromios, Semele’s son, the chief god invoked amid the fair-garlanded delights of the feast?

Summary

Warwick Classics Society are proud to announce our 2022 Ancient Drama festival production of Euripides' Bacchae, directed by Jessica Johnson and produced by Katharine Broderick.

Set in ancient Thebes, this tragedy tells the story of King Pentheus and his refusal to accept the power of the god Dionysus...

Performance

First they let their hair fall to their shoulders, and those whose fastenings had come undone adjusted their fawnskin garments, girdling the dappled skins with snakes that licked their cheeks…. They decked themselves with crowns of ivy, oak, and flowering bryony….

Programme

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Lectures

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Supporting the performance, the Department offered a series of lectures, discussions and seminars for school students and general audiences. These included:

Dionysus’ Face and Pentheus’ Dress: Dionysian Imagery and Symbolism

Drama as Cult, or The Mysteries of the Bacchae

Chorus and Characters in the Bacchae

The historical context of the Bacchae

Nature and the Divine in the Bacchae

Go, Bacchus, and as beast, with smiling face, cast the deadly noose upon the bacchants’ hunter as he falls into the hands of the maenad band!

Get in touch

If you would like to reach out to know more about this production, the Warwick Ancient Drama Festival, or the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, please feel free to contact Dr Emmanuela Bakola at [email protected]

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