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The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973)

APGRD id
5793
Start date
2nd August 1973
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
English
Associated ancient works
Bacchai (Euripides)
Scripts:
The Bacchae of Euripides (1973) (Wole Soyinka)
Companies
National Theatre (NT, London; aka Royal National Theatre)
APGRD Notes
Premiere production; Soyinka was commissioned by the National Theatre at the Old Vic, London, to produce a new version for performance in summer 1973. It ran for 20 performances between August 1973 and September 1974.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/5793
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Person Credit Notes
Harry Lomax Actor Old Slave
John Shrapnel Actor Pentheus
Wole Soyinka Adaptor
Roland Joffé Director
Martin Shaw Actor Dionysus
Jocelyn Herbert Set Designer credited with the "basic staging scheme"
Julian Curry Actor Tiresias
Paul Curran Actor Cadmus
Desmond McNamara Actor Guard
Gawn Grainger Actor Officer
Isabelle Lucas Actor Leader of the Bacchantes
Nadine Baylis Designer
Marc Wilkinson Music
Marc Wilkinson Sound
Malcolm Goddard Movement Director / Coach
David Bradley Actor Herdsman
Constance Cummings Actor Agave
Leonard Tucker Lighting
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
Old Vic (London, Greater London, England) England – Press night - Aug. 2, 1973
Title Year Format Content
Email from Fiona Macintosh to Amanda Wrigley Print-out email correspondence
Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy Print-out lecture
Ousting monsters Newspaper cutting article
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite Wole Soyinka Book
Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama Christopher Balme Book
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium Katharine Worth, Amanda Wrigley, Lorna Hardwick, Kathleen Riley, Pantelis Michelakis, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Helene Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, Peter G. McC. Brown, David Wiles, Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) Book
Dioniso: Annale della Fondazione INDA. Vol.4 (new series) Journal
Wole Soyinka: Bibliography, Biography, Playography Malcolm Page Book
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production J. Michael Walton Book
Collected Plays 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides Wole Soyinka Book
Title Year Format Content
National Theatre Archive Archival collection