Details

Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides' electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and god.

Cast/Performers

Ben Whishaw (Dionysos), Bertie Carvel, Kevin Harvey, Amiera Darwish, Eugenia Georgieva, Kaisa Hammarlund, Helen Hobson, Hazel Holder, Melanie La Barrie, Elinor Lawless, Catherine May, Louise Mills, Belinda Sykes

Creatives/Company

Author: Euripides
Producer: Almeida Theatre
Adapted by: Anne Carson
Director: James Macdonald
Music: Orlando Gough
Musical Director: Lindy Tennent-Brown
Design: Antony McDonald
Lighting: Peter Mumford
Choreographer(s): Jonathan Burrows, Gillie Kleiman
Sound: Paul Arditti