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The Bacchae by Euripides

Fri. 20.1.2023
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The Bacchae by Euripides
Fri. 20.1.2023
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Since the establishment of theater as a bourgeois art form in the 19th century, numerous authors and theater makers have formulated the demand to penetrate social reality with the means of art and to bring it to view in its contradictoriness. The directing students of the Thomas Bernhard Institute work with classical drama texts, which they set in relation to the social and political reality of our present.

The Bacchae by Euripides

With: Payam Yazdani (Dionysus), Alexander Smirzitz (Kadmos/Bote), Lena Plochberger (Pentheus), Fayola  Schönrock (Messenger), Daryna Mavlenko, Payam Yazdani, Mariia Soroka, Mariia Tkachenko, Daria Samoylenko, Anastasiia Shakirova, Marko Sonkin, Fayola Schönrock (Chorus of the Bacchae)

Director: Lea Oltmanns
Stage: Ella Hölldampf
Costume/mask: Iggi Bühler
Sound: Alexander Bauer
Dramaturgical assistance: Laura Bernhardt
Classical Philological Consultation: Sophia Ortner

Walled in by a narrow concept of masculinity, born of gender conventions, King Pentheus rules over Thebes in his palace. Shaken by the Bacchae, a community that, led by Dionysus, enters Thebes lustily and loudly. Eyed suspiciously by some, cheered by others, this movement quickly becomes the subject of imaginings and attributions about "the strange quite unheard of, wonderful doing." That Pentheus' grandfather, the former king Kadmos, also joins the Bacchae is the straw that breaks the camel's back.  
 
The team questions the speech act and construction of gender in Euripides' "Bacchae," as well as the ambivalence of fear of losing authority and the longing to unite with those oppressed by heteronormative bisexuality. What do we have to counter the domination of fathers? And who is willing to give up power?