Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and humiliation in a long war with Sparta. The ...

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson recounted the challenges he faced teaching at California State University, Fresno during a Thursday episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own ...

On Oct. 23, Duke Players opened their fall show “The Bacchae,” directed by senior JR Cassidy. This production, like many others of Duke Players, took place in Brody Theater, a theatre that perfectly ...

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Sharon Small leads an excellent cast in a bold but banal Bacchae for the National Theatre's brand new Artistic Director's debut show. Warrior women and uppity females are very much in evidence in Nima ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) Warning: this article contains spoilers. Indhu Rubasingham has begun her tenure as the director of the National Theatre with her production of Bacchae , playwright Nima ...

Indhu Rubasingham has begun her tenure as the director of the National Theatre with her production of Bacchae, playwright Nima Taleghani’s new version of Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy. A play about ...

BACCHAE at the Olivier opens thrillingly when a vast illuminated halo rises to prominence, in its centre a massive white horse powering towards us with quivering mane and pools for eyes. At once, we ...

This eccentric take on Euripedes by Nima Taleghani is a striking yet often frustrating opening statement It takes courage and some flamboyance to launch an inaugural programme as the National ...

Here we go. Nearly two years after her appointment was announced, Indhu Rubasingham’s tenure as artistic director of the National Theatre gets underway. Euripides’ Bacchae tells the myth of the god ...

According to ancient myth, the fearsome bacchae were prone to turning their victims inside out and scattering their entrails over Greek mountain sides. And Heartstopper actor Nima Taleghani has done ...