Dionysus in '69 (theatrical production)

Dionysus in 69 was a theatrical production by The Performance Group (TGP), a New York-based experimental theatre group. Dionysus in 69 was directed and conceived by TPG’s founder and long-time artistic director Richard Schechner. The stage play was an adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae.Dionysus in 69 is an example of Richard Schechner’s practice of site-specific theatre as described in his 1973 book Environmental Theater, utilizing space and the audience in such ways as to bring them in close contact with each other. Dionysus in 69 challenged notions of the orthodox theatre by deconstructing Euripides' text, interpolating text and action devised by the performers, and involving the spectators in an active and sensory artistic experience.Brian de Palma, Bruce Joel Rubin, and Robert Fiore made a film of Dionysus in 1970. The film records and merges the final two performances of the 1968 stage play.

The cast of the play at the time of its filming was:

The Bacchae is a play written by the Greek playwright Euripides. The play opened at the City Dionysia Festival in Athens in 405 B.C. and won first prize. It follows the God Dionysus on his return to the city of Thebes to avenge his mother’s reputation and the God’s own rejection as the bastard child of Zeus. The title refers to the groups of female followers of the God, who serve as the chorus in the play, and would engage in ecstatic rituals to the point of euphoric delirium motivated by the God’s association with wine, sexuality, celebration and the theater. The play deals with the themes of religion, sexuality, sacrifice and devotion. The translation which served as the basis for the TPG production was written by William Arrowsmith.

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