BacchaiDionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him of his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humour, the God drives Pentheus and all the city to their shocking fate. |
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Actaeon Aeschylus Agave ancient actor ancient Greek Aphrodite Asian Autonoe Bacchai Bacchic beasts beat beauty believe blood bull Chorus Dionysus cry my cry dares dark Demeter Dionysus Pentheus dramatic rites dress drum drumbeat earth Edith Hall Enter PENTHEUS Euripides evil Evoe Exit PENTHEUS father fear fire foreign gods gorgon grief hair hand Harrison Birtwistle head hear heard heedless Hera Herdsman honour hunt hunter Iacchus ivy-covered shaft justice killed Look madness male Marie-Gabrielle mask mortal mother Mount Cithairon Mount Tmolus mysteries National Theatre old Cadmus palace Pentheus Dionysus Pentheus You're right performance Phrygia pine play priest of Dionysus punishment rituals river sacred shaft Semele serpent's teeth Servant sing sisters skins of deer snake-skinned Echion song Sophocles sweet Teiresias tell Thebes thigh tree truth ululation wear the wreath western world What's wisdom woman womb women wreath of ivy wrong Zeus