Welcome from this year's Greek play team!

Euripides’ BACCHAE 

UCL CLASSICS PLAY 2015 

The Bacchae is Euripides’ last play – written shortly before his death – and 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; its raw and animalistic side.  

How far is one capable of going?  

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. 

Directed by Emily Louizou 

Associate Director Kyriaki Ioannidou 

Producer Hayley Russell

Assistant Producer Amy Gwinnett

Assistant Director Sasha Stamp

CAST LIST 

Bacchae

Eirini Papantoniou

Moa Taylor

Cora Burridge

Bryony Bedingham

Sybilla Pereia

Cara Fay

Tanvi Punatar

Charlotte Holtum

Sophie Nuber

Harriet Alway

Mercedes Bromwich

Polly Cohen

Faidra Faitaki

Alisha Iyer

Helena Gadelha

Dionysus' Followers

Gavin Davies

Matthew Wagaine

Dionysus - Pavlos Christodoulos

Pentheus - Adam Woolley

Cadmus - Jack Tivey

Teiresias - Madi Anderson

Agave - Charlotte Holtum

Messenger 1 - Alfie Tees
Messenger 2 - Jamie Sillitoe

Messenger 3 - Alistair Rooms

Guards

Akshay Nugent

Akhil Malhan

Florent Simon

Hayden Munt

Stephanos Stephanides

David Anzolin

Nick Leah

Euripides’

BACCHAE

UCL CLASSICS PLAY 2015

The

Bacchae

is Euripides’ last play – written shortly before his

death – and within it the greek

tragedian encapsulates what it means to be a human b

eing. It is a unique tragedy that explores

the darkest corners of human nature; its raw and ani

malistic side.

How far is one capable of going?

The

Bacchae

searches deep into the human soul and confronts hu

mans’ 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 Diony

sus - 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 et

hralling piece: a game of antithetical forces,

where sanity and madness come to conflict.

In a performance-ritual about the battle between hu

man instincts and human wisdom, join us

for a dark celebration of the exotic and the ecstat

ic; 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.

Directed by Emily Louizou

Associate Director Kyriaki Ioannidou

Producer Hayley Russell