This is some shameless self promotion, but hey! Why not come see some FREE (YES, FREE) theater... This is a project me and my fellow 18 company members have been working on for a little over a month now, The Bakkhai by Euripides. I could give you my summary, but why don't you read this one:
Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics anexemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the Theban king, Pentheus, forbids his people to worship him and tries to have him arrested. Enraged, Bacchus drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy.
Awesome, right? I know it's kind of hard to read the dates and times on the poster... so here they are again:
March 1 @ 7:30
March 2 @ 7:30
March 3 @ 7:30
March 4 @ 2:00 and 7:30 (I think it's 7:00 though? I'll double check)
It takes place on the Stoll Thrust theater in the Rarig Center (West Bank! Represent!)
*Ben or Robin, would you be able to post this on the other blog?!
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