Critics - Tragedy and triumph

From: The Northern Echo | Date: May 24, 2002| Author: Viv Hardwick | Copyright information

Bacchai, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre PRONOUNCED Back-eye, this is a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy by Euripides which dares to venture into the classical world of Dionysus, the god bent on bloody destruction of young non-believer Pentheus, the king of Thebes. Classical scholars are in their element. The rest of us are left with a morality play where pride leads to a royal family being erased from the Earth.

Director Peter Hall's determination to explore theatre of the mask means th...

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