Bacchae

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Mike Poulton's all-new version of this dark and liberating play, co-conceived with choreographer Mark Bruce and director Braham Murray. Think Hair meets Titus Andronicus

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The play is sublime - Riveting * Observer *
This is a composed, restrained, often beautiful and mainly lucid account of the play - Poulton's version is lush, lyrical, witty and inventive * Daily Telegraph *
Written 2,500 years ago, Euripides' play can still shake you like an earthquake. Like Shakespeare, he is not our contemporary, but speaks to us as if he were * Sunday Times *
Mike Poulton is responsible for this lean, muscular new translation - Conceived as a ritualistic horror story featuring a few pagan rhythmic dance passages, this strong production also serves as a sober but sometimes grimly comic warning * The Times *

Author Bio

One of the greatest and most influential of the Greek tragedians, Euripides, is said to have produced 92 plays, the first of which appeared in 455BC.