Bakkhai
Awakening savage frenzy in the women of Thebes, the god of wine, ecstasy and fertility lays bare the duality of our natures: that each of us, no matter how civilized, has a wild beast within.
Bakkhai
By Euripedes
A NEW VERSION BY ANNE CARSON
DIRECTOR JILLIAN KEILEY
STRATFORD FESTIVAL - 2017
Awakening savage frenzy in the women of Thebes, the god of wine, ecstasy and fertility lays bare the duality of our natures: that each of us, no matter how civilized, has a wild beast within.
Audience Advisory: This production includes sexuality, eroticism, violence and other mature themes and might not be suitable for some audiences.
This season at the Stratford Festival is the final season for the Tom Patterson Theatre as it currently stands. It will be entirely rebuilt, starting this fall. The current space is going out with a bang, however, in terms of the diverse and exciting productions that can be seen on its stage this season. Each production is excellent, but the most exciting of all may well be Jillian Keiley's production of BAKKHAI. This play may not be for everyone, but if you appreciate good, exciting, and inventive theatre, and don't blush too easily at eroticism on stage, then I highly suggest you get your tickets immediately...
Perusing the 2017 Stratford Festival season, its focus on diversity is hard to miss: there are new plays about the Inuit in Canada’s North (The Breathing Hole) and another about a difficult episode in the history of East Indian immigration to Vancouver (The Komagata Maru Incident). Actors of colour are playing the twins in Twelfth Night (Sarah Afful and Michael Blake) and the future Elizabeth I of England (Bahia Watson in The Virgin Trial)...
Is that a deep red leaf painted onto the stage of the Tom Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ont. … or is that what I think it is?...
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