The Bacchae
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Theodoros Terzopoulos returns to Euripides’ The Bacchae: an inexhaustible rebirth that continually raises new questions about myth, the body, power, and the crisis of the city. As the founder of the Attis Theatre and one of the leading international figures in the study of ancient tragedy, the director interprets Dionysus as a foreign, unsettling figure who defies all established order. The god arrives from the East, bringing with him a force that seduces and unsettles, undermining the certainties of the polis and revealing what the community would prefer to keep at bay. In this new production, the myth opens up to the present: Dionysus also becomes an archetype of the refugee, a body on a journey through wars, borders, and the Mediterranean, all the way to the shores of Crete or Lampedusa. The Bacchae reaffirms itself as a tragedy about the stranger, desire, violence, and what happens when a city refuses to acknowledge the force that throws it into crisis. The large cast includes: Roberto Latini as Dionysus, Alvia Reale as Agave, Enzo Vetrano as Cadmus, Stefano Randisi as Tiresias, Marco Cacciola as Pentheus, and Paolo Musio as the Chorus Leader.
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Artistic Data
original music by Panagiotis Velianitis
assistant director and dramaturg Savvas Stroumpos
assistant director Stravos Papadopoulos
assistant dramaturg Michalis Traitsis
sets built at the ERT Scenography Workshop
workshop director and chief set builder Gioacchino Gramolini
set builders Veronica Sbrancia, Leandro Spadola, Claudio Bellagamba, Lorenzo Gigante, Aura Chiaravalle, Keolo Camara, Tiziano Barone, Fabio Minniti
set designers and decorators Sarah Menichini, Alice Di Stefano, Bianca Passanti, Martina Perrone, Noemi Ruth Biganzoli
costumes for Agave, Cadmus, Tiresias, and the Chorus Leader by Mediapont Arte Tessile
costumes designed for the set by Carola Tesolin and Attosecondo (Modena set designers’ cooperative)
technical director Massimo Gianaroli
stage manager Claudio Bellagamba
stagehands Aura Chiaravalle, Lorenzo Gigante
chief electrician Lorenzo Maugeri
sound engineer Manuela Alabastro
stage seamstress Carola Tesolin
costume makers Eleonora Terzi, Carola Tesolin
makeup artist Fedora Zamora
logistics Achur Meradji
production Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Attis Theatre Company
photos by Matilde Piazzi
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