Dionysus Resurrected

InhaltsangabeAcknowledgments vii Preface ix Introduction 1 Rediscovering The Bacchae Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality 25 Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27 Richard Schechner'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 S~ao Paulo (1996) Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91 Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past 93 The Antiquity Project at the SchaubEURuhne 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 (19782008) 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 Shizheng's The Bacchae in Beijing (1996) Epilogue 225 Name Index 231 Subject Index 236