Dionysus Resurrected : Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World (Hardcover)

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

–Rediscovering The Bacchae –

Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality 25

Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27

– Richard Schechner’s Dionysus in 69

in New York (1968) –

Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite? 48

– Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides

at London’s National Theatre (1973) –

Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia 72

– Teat(r)o Oficina’s Bacantes in São Paulo (1996) –

Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91

Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past 93

– The Antiquity Project at the Schaubühne

Berlin (1974) –

Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness? 116

– Theodoros Terzopoulos’ The Bacchae in

Delphi (1986) –

Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities 136

– Krzysztof Warlikowski’s The Bacchae

in Warsaw (2001) –

Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures? 157

Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness 159

– Suzuki Tadashi’s The Bacchae in Japan and on

World Tour (1978–2006) –

Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali 186

– The Bacchae by Guru Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan

in Delphi and New Delhi (1998) –

Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered 206

– Peter Steadman and Chen Shi-zheng’s The Bacchae

in Beijing (1996) –

Epilogue 225

Index of names 00

Index of subjects 00