The Bacchae by Euripides " review
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterOn to a sand-coloured floor, browned at the perimeter as if scorched by newly dead fires, strides the god Dionysus (divinely embodied by Jotham Annan, in flowing robes and leaf-spiked locks). On this simplest of settings unfolds one of the most unsettling plays of Europe's past two-and-a-half millennia. Euripides's exploration of the nature of human existence intertwines man with god…
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