Ben Whishaw stars in the second production of the Islington venue’s Greek season
The Bakkhai U.S.A. Lighting design for Lileana Blain-Cruz's production of Euripides' The Bakkhai, in a new translation by Ned Moore. It was performed at the...
Whishaw is Dionysus, the avenging God and son of Zeus in Ancient Greece. Bringer of madness and wild intoxication. His mission is to punish the unbelievers of Thebes who reject him.
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The star draw is Ben Whishaw and, my, he oozes charisma and a beguiling erotic enticement as an effeminate and dangerous Dinoysus, the self-proclaimed God of wine, madness and ecstasy.
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Bakkhai, a new version of Euripides’s tragedy about wine, women and wildness is a production theatregoers will be talking about for a long, long time
We intend to dance for Dionysos, yes. It’s the right thing to do. You must be out of your mind to go to war with a god like this. Anne Carson and Euripides, Bakkhai [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “For in penetrating to the higher mysteries he will see things which are concealed […]
It’s not about intellectual prowess, it’s not about true and false, it’s pure release. It’s your life night and day free of grief: Dionysos’ gift. Anne Carson and Euripides, Bakkhai [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “For in penetrating to the higher mysteries he will see things which are concealed from ordinary humanity by […]
