BAKKHAI

By Euripides, in a version by Anne Carson.
Dionysos is back. People are disappearing.
In Euripides' brutal tragedy, the fight to maintain order becomes an obsession, freedom curdles into violence, and a city discovers what happens when it tries to control a force it cannot contain.
More than two thousand years later, The Bacchae remains a vicious collision of desire, gender, power, ecstasy and death. Nobody emerges clean. Nobody gets the last word.
2026 Nobel Laureate Anne Carson's striking translation reveals a world where the line between civilisation and savagery, between past and present, are thinner than anyone wants to admit.
Exit Dionysos.

• $30.00
• 2-7 March 2027
• 90 minutes
• Holden Street Theatres
• The Barbara Hardy Garden