Ancient theatre
Directior: Javor Gardev. Cast: Leonid Yovchev, Samuel Finzi, Alexandros Mylonas, Lucia Michalopoulou and more. Live on stage: The Tiger Lillies.
The tragedy “The Bacchae” explores the primal fear of the collapse of civilization, which manifests itself on both an individual and a collective level. The play highlights the myths a community creates to protect itself from the fear of “the other,” drawing parallels to Balkan nationalism and intolerance as political expressions of this fear.
The plot is based on the delusion that anything no ...
