Bacchae - University of Kansas (Greece 2006)
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- University of Kansas production of The Bacchae (Euripides) as part of the Oiniades Theatre Festival in Katohi, Greece.
Production date: 21 July 2006
Directed by Dennis Christilles. Music by Brian Bondari. Choreography by Meggi Sweeney.
Director: Dennis Christilles
Composer/Dionysus: Brian Bondari
Choreographer/Agave: Meggi Sweeney
Video: Sean Smith
I love the singing voice of the guy who plays Dionysus. His acting was good, too, but the singing was gorgeous.
The melody is "Hozon zes phainou", also known as the "Seikilos Epitaph", the oldest known complete melody from about 200 BC Greece. See czcams.com/video/mGfOHoun0OQ/video.html
@@AB-qt3uz Cool! Thanks for telling me.
Thank you! That means a lot.
I'm glad you made the connection. As this was my first time traveling to/performing in Greece, I intentionally based the main tune of the production on the Seikilos Epitaph. Somehow, performing in an ancient theatre made it all the more meaningful.
That was a joy to watch. I recently discovered my interest in Ancient Greece, from reading Brian Muraresku, and that led to the Dionysian Mysteries and Euripides. So much to learn, but I thank everyone in this performance for helping me to interpret The Bacchae. Bravo!
Funny, that’s the same reason I’m watching this right now.
For me was dr. Ammon hillman. He gives tutoring and he is quite brilliant I belive he's been referenced by muraresku
This was wonderful. I really hope to perform in this play, someday.... And it would be a dream to play Dionysos himself. I love the costuming, and the setting, and the clear love everyone has
Dressed in faun skin the stranger awaits, in his hands a Thyrus
From Asia, from sacred Tmolus
I’ve come to dance,
to move swiftly in my dance-
Bromius Evohe
sweet and easy task,
to cry out in celebration,
EVOHE EVOHE
hailing great god Bacchus.
I wonder if there's some symbolism in the fact that Dionysus, a god who is descibed in the play as appearing feminine and unmanly, is the only character portrayed by a man here? Also, given that in Anicent Greece only men where allowed to be actors, this production seems intentionally subversive. Not that that's a bad thing; in fact this addaptation is the best I've seen.
The women are the human world, the male is the divine. There is a second male, the young boy who helps Tiresias who is blind to the human world, but has sight in the divine. He says so @7:08.
The divine is the transcendent which can be collapsed into the human world as the collective violence of Thebes (the infection of the Dionysian) which is resolved by centralization on one sacrificial victim chosen from the human world, in this case Pentheus. Violence, which is the divine, is the domain of the masculine. Thus the sacred and violence are two sides of the same coin. Euripides reveals this insight @19:00 when Dionysos and Pentheus most directly confront one another. Pentheus asks "Tell me, did you see this god face to face? Or did you conjure him up in some drunken dream?" And Dionysos answers "Face to face, as I now see you." There is no god without the sacrifice, and there is no sacrifice without the god.
Hope that helps.
Same, I found it to be more meaningful this way...
The use of modern English is much appreciated. Most translations I've found use older versions which I don't get the same emotion from.
i really enjoyed watching this! dionysus was captivating
This is amazing! I'd love to purchase a DVD of this performance to show in my mythology class.
Hey, Professor. I didn't expect to find you in a CZcams comments section.
Did u ever get the dvd? I want one, too
@@BallJoinedWing omg same! lmk if you find one
This was so good, I wish the video quality was better but wow, I wish I could see this live. It was magical.
I found timestamps to all the songs (maybe. Hopefully I didn’t miss anything) I should go back and label what they’re each about because I wasn’t doing that at first, but I’m kinda distracted
4:51
14:07
22:09
36:13
42:05 (After Pentheus leaves to climb the mountain)
48:45 (After she killed Pentheus)
59:33 (after she realizes what she has done)
Thanks for posting...I particularly like the use of common language...and the talent of the group.
Hello from Greece!!!
I love this, it really helped me in my study of Dionysus.
thats the best Bacchae i've ever seen, the only one that feels like it has that greek spirit!
Bravo,Bravo the performance was really good. I am reading the play for my ENG class. Watching the play helped me understand the play I am reading. Thank you :)
This, boys and girls, is why
A) You don't fuck with a god/goddess
B) You don't mess with drunk people.
C) You don't question peoples beliefs
Stay in school everyone.
my only problem was the thyrsus had no pinecone or vines, i love this so much and can’t stop watching
GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED. Excellent play!!
Dionysis is basically the Greek version of Sheogorath from the Elder Scrolls.
Stephen Skinner In some aspects sure-Dionysos is a terrifying God, but he is a compassionate, and kind God as well. I can say as a devotee to Dionysos and an avid player of the Elder Scrolls that Dionysos cannot be simply understood; nor may any deity.
Dionysos is a lot like many of the Gods from the Elder Scrolls. He is misfigured as he is beautiful, he is mad as he is sane, he is dark as he is light.
As a God of the vine, ecstacy, harvest, wine-harvest, sex, nature, homosexuality, cross-dressing, and so much more, you cannot limit a God to a single entity.
Sheogorath is incomplete, as others have said. To get a fraction closer, I think Sanguine's gotta get involved? But also, he's not Greek them, *they're* modern *him,* lol
Amazing performance! I'm quite surprised to see that they are delivering it both in english and greek. I have a question though: is it ancient or modern greek?
it's modern greek!
Thanks for posting, it was very good.
Dionysus can call me anytime
Sorry to tell you, he's married now (with 3 kids)
True, true. Hi, Maggie! Wasn't expecting to find you here.
Thanks for posting, looks like an amazing night
WWWow. Kudos to the University of Kansas.
Wonderful
Haunting
Amazing! Than you!
hidden in this play are the dionysus cult rituals which is pretty dark if you ask me
Is there a copy of the transcript somewhere that I could use with my classes? Ideally, translating the greek lines?
I noticed the script seems to have been adapted or re-written some. No? Particularly, I noticed the scene of the sparagmos and omophagia were sort of abridged and much of the gruesome detail left out. Too bad, because it's poetic and the symbology tells a great deal on another level.
omophagia if it has a fancy intellectual interpretation behind it. cannabalism if Jeff Dahmer does it.
Anyone else get sent here from their professor?
how do they do the earthquake??
that rapid beating of the drum maybe?
there was a tragic earthquake in Greece in 2006. so sad. can't believe they carried on performing through it. such dedication! great question from you though ophelia :)
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Dionysus makes me think of Robert Heinlein's saying: “Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” In this play, Dionysus appears to be acting a 4 year old's fantasy of revenge on adults who don't give him the respect he deserves.
Euripides wrote the Bacchae after moving to Macedonia. I wonder whether the play would have been considered blasphemous in Athens? Some Greek tragedies depict gods in a bad light, but Dionysus is in a class of his own for petty nastiness.
it's a fine line - dionysus is cruel, but pentheus's refusal to respect the gods would have been worse.
In my limited knowledge, he's the God of Drunkenness (among other things). Know many drunk people who *aren't* petty? Drunk people range from petty, to wrathful, to the most kind people in the world. That's him. That's why he is the way he is. God of intoxication is an enormous thing to be, I don't think he's less powerful than a man lmao.
Besides, children are genuinely massively under-respected, so of course they're often fucking cranky. Would you enjoy being dragged around from place to place with no say or warning or control? With no end? And then told to shut up, be quiet, stop asking questions, stop complaining that you don't wanna be here? Never listened to, spoken over constantly, demeaned and disregarded. No, children are not full adults capable of making their own choices, but they do deserve more respect than we give them.
Loved everything except Pentheus. I don't think a cackling Wicked Witch of the West voice is the best choice for Pentheus in the first 30 minutes. Think of Pilot interviewing Jesus in the Bible. That's the voice you need for Pentheus before he is driven mad.
demonic
the moral of the story: obey gods no matter how crazy and evil they are.
I don't think that's it...
No. Euripides’ message says there is danger in rejecting the gods, and danger in following them too closely. Extremism leads to a sticky end.
@@ericsaylor5722 The divine is the collective human violence which is resolved by the selection of a sacrifice, Pentheus. This violence (ie the divine) dominates you to the degree that you think you can dominate it.
the moral is don't place yourself above the gods and don't be a hubristic fuck like pentheus
They were very explicit about how good he is, too. Rain can nourish or destroy; sun can nourish or destroy; gods can nourish or destroy. Evil has nothing to do with it.
The script in this rendition loses everything.
Μόνο που μπήκαν τα αγγλικά σε μια καθαρά ελληνική αρχαία τραγωδία , είσαστε για γέλια !
It's like a game of spot the Χρυσαυγίτης (sigh). Το μόνο πράγμα που βλέπω για γέλια εδώ είναι εσύ.
συμφωνώ lol - elisos robertosus