![]() ![]() The cast includes seniors Bryan Bowen of North Beach, Md. I’m excited to bring this lively contemporary version of this ancient Greek Tragedy to life on our stage,” she said. Desperate to control his kingdom, he laughs in the face of the god. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The women of Thebes have gone mad with the worship of Dionysos, and the newly minted arrogant King Pentheus will have none of it. This is Domser’s final production before retiring from McDaniel.Īccording to van den Berg, her inspiration for choosing this play was both the Women’s March and the election of Donald Trump. The McDaniel production is directed by Theatre Arts chair Elizabeth van den Berg with McDaniel Theatre Arts professor Ira Domser as the set designer. This new translation of “The Bakkhai” is by award-winning classics scholar, poet and writer Anne Carson. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students, seniors (over 60), active military members and veterans, as well as those with a McDaniel College ID. Performances are April 18–21 at 7:30 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall. McDaniel College Theatre Arts students perform in a new translation of “The Bakkhai,” Euripides’s classical Greek tragedy about the struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and God. ![]()
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