As part of our mission to tell the stories of women, people of color, and those with physical disabilities, Griot Theatre presentsThe Bacchae
Translated/Adapted by Emma Pauly
From Euripides
Dionysus - god of wine, ecstasy, and chaos - has told this story many times before. Now, the god manifests in the female form and enlists a chorus of modern women to right past wrongs and spread the worship of Dionysus. Pentheus, King of Thebes, has banned the new deity's worship and sets himself on a collision course with a god.
-And so the Maenads dance.
-The city burns.
-And gods and mortals have a choice to make.
