The Bacchae of Euripides

Wed Jun 22, 2011 to
Fri Jul 08, 2011

21:00

Location

Makarios III Amphitheatre
(Amphitheater of School for Blind)
28th October Street
Acropoli, Nicosia 2012

THOC
Phone: 22492900

Description

The Cyprus Theatre Organisation welcomes the summer with "The Bacchae" of Euripides, directed by Paolo Baiocco and music by Alkinoos Ioannidis.

The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed.

The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him.

(in Greek)