Details

'Euripides' Bacchai is a short, sharp play, and one of the most challenging ever written. Whenever it is performed, it appears hideously timely. Man's quest for faith comes from an impulse bred of terror and of hope. If often leads to consequences as horrible as they are wonderful. Compassion breeds cruelty, redemption produces persecution. The play deals with extremes; faith is opposed by instinct, reason by emotion, male by female, chaos by order, West by East and life by death.' Peter Hall

Cast/Performers

Lee Haven-Jones, Greg Hicks, William Houston, Chuk Iwuji, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Renzo Murrone, Stefani Pleasence, Margaret Preece, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, David Ryall, Rachel Sanders, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Clare Swinburne, Nicola Alexis, Ewen Cummins, Wendy Morgan, Richard Morris, Jax Williams

Creatives/Company

Author: Euripides
Producer: Royal National Theatre
Adapted by: Colin Teevan
Director(s): Peter Hall, Nikola Kodjabashia (music)
Music: Harrison Birtwistle
Design: Alison Chitty
Lighting: Peter Mumford
Choreographer: Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Sound: Paul Groothuis