Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides’ electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the irrational and irrational, man and god.

Euripides was born in Athens, Greece, around 485 BCE and died in Macedonia in 406 BCE. He was one of the great Athenian playwrights and poets of ancient Greece, known for the tragedies he wrote, including The Bacchae, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis and The Trojan Women. Of his 90 plays, 19 have survived.

‘The suppleness of [Carson’s] verse… When you look at the lines on the page, squeezing and fanning out, you can almost hear the pulse.’ – Susannah Clapp, The Guardian

DIRECTOR: Dominic Yeates
PLAYWRIGHT: Anne Carson (Euripides)
AGE RESTRICTION: 12+
STROBE LIGHTING: Yes
HAZE SMOKE: Yes