Euripides’ Bacchae – Bloomsbury Theatre 2015

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Book tickets online: https://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/14046 The UCL Classical Drama Society present a production of Euripides' Bacchae in association with the Bloomsbury Theatre. Directed by Emily Louizou in a modern English translation by James Morwood. The Bacchae is Euripides’ last play, written shortly before his death. Within it, the Greek tragedian encapsulates what it means to be a human being. It is a unique tragedy that explores the darkest corners of human nature, and its raw and animalistic side. The Bacchae searches deep into the human soul and confronts humans’ worst fears: pain, sorrow, and disgrace. Euripides’ play portrays the undesired emotionalism which can lead human crowds into inhuman conduct. Our production allows modern audiences to meet Dionysus — god of pleasure, madness, and liberation — in a mad Bacchic frenzy as a state of delusion which holds the human body at the centre of its creation. Euripides has created an enthralling piece: a game of antithetical forces, where sanity and madness come to conflict. In a performance-ritual about the battle between human instincts and human wisdom, join us for a dark celebration of the exotic and the ecstatic; for a journey of no time and no space into the ‘otherness’ of the human self. A game of fragmented identities. A game of revenge and punishment. A game of life. And death. Tickets: £10, concessions £6(booking fee £2.50 per transaction) Performance times: Tue, 10th February at 7:30pm Wed, 11th February at 2:30pm Wed, 11th February at 7:30pm Thu, 12th February at 2:30pm Thu, 12th February at 7:30pm Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bacchae2015 Follow us @Bacchae2015 More details: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play Directed by Emily Louizou Produced by Hayley Russell Associate Director: Kyriaki Ioannidou Original music composition: David Denyer Set Design: Avra Alevropoulou Costume Design: Eleni Bantra & Tippi Wilson Choreography: Valeryia Azorina & Despina Pseftodiakou Assistant Producers: Amy Gwinnett & Sasha Stamp Hair Design: Chloe Collingwood Make Up Design: Kira Amin Publicity Officer: Antonia Wood Publicity Designer: Lily Hassioti Photography: Lucy Feng, Markos Volikas, Avra Alevropoulou Video: Flo Knoyle Cast: Alisha Iyer, Moa Taylor Hodin, Pollyanna Cohen, Cara Fay, Faidra Faitaki, Cora Burridge, Sybilla Pereia, Eirini Papantoniou, Mercedes Bromwich, Helena Gadelha, Harriet Always, Valeriya Azorina, Adam Woolley, Pavlos Christodoulou, Jeremy Wong, Jack Tivey, Charlotte Holtum, Alistair Rooms, Ranulph Tees, Jamie Sillitoe, Hayden Munt, Akshay Nugent, Florent Simon, David Anzolin, Nick Leah, Akhil Malhan Musicians: Anna Gibbs, James Patel, Matthew Wagaine, Francesca Piccano Moss, Leo Middleton, David Denyer