Bakkhai

Written by

Anne Carson

~playauthor~Written by~ Anne Carson

Oberon Books, 2015

Oberon Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (9), Female (0), Male (7), Unassigned (2)

...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 rational...