PT7 Les Bacchantes

Our college had the chance to take part at the Sara Llorca’s show who revisits the tragedy of Euripide and invites us to a theatrical and musical festival which goes from the comedy to the tragedy.

The Dionysos god is avenged for Thèbes ‘s King who refuses his worship. Returned under the features of a mortal, it throws a fate on the women of the city and the conduit in the madness… Many years separate us from the Bacchantes, and yet the challenges of this part resound in a seizing way: fatal violence ordered by a god, mistrust with respect to the foreigner, places women in the city.

Sara Llorca privileges the freedom of a resolutely contemporary form. Its rewriting explores with smoothness the differences between the ancient world and ours, bestiality and human brutality, thus questioning the limits of our humanity.

As it was of use at the time of Euripide, three actors alone play all the parts with virtuosity of which luminous Anne Alvaro lending his attractive presence and its humour to the figure-ground of Dionysos. At their sides, the chorus is made of two musicians and a singer. By weaving theatre, dance, music and visual arts, the part brews always current topics in an inventive production, making the good share with the sensory experiment of the spectators.