Dionysus resurrected : performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a globalizing world / Erika Fischer-Lichte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer-Lichte, Erika, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euripides. Bacchae.

Euripides.

Greek drama--Modern presentation.

Greek drama.

Physical Description:

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014.

Contents:

Rediscovering The Bacchae

Part I Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality 25

Chapter 1 The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27

Richard Scheduler'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 Schaubiihne 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 (1978-2008)

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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405175784

1405175788

OCLC:

855779227