DIE BAKCHEN - LASST UNS TANZEN

WIM VANDEKEYBUS / ULTIMA VEZ

World premiere on March 15th 2019 at Cuvilliéstheatre, Munich (DE).

In Euripides’ Bacchae, one of the great fables in world literature, it’s all about the tension between the city and nature, between law and transgression, between culture and drives. Dionysus and his votaries are not welcome in Thebes, the city of King Pentheus. Pentheus opposes the intoxicating and irrational cult of the new halfgod, who mainly attracts women - and wants to drive him out of the city. Revenge is what Dionysus is looking for. He tries to force a confrontation by letting himself be captured by Pentheus. Dionysus invites Pentheus to secretly attend - unseen and dressed as a woman - the orgies that are held outside the walls of the city. There, Pentheus is murdered by his own mother Agave, who in her intoxicated state, mistakes him for a wild animal and tears him to pieces. The animalistic, irrational, intoxicative elements that have been ousted from civilisation, all return in the form of blindness, destruction and aggression… 

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DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY: Wim Vandekeybus

TEXT: Peter Verhelst after Euripides

CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY

 actors from the ensemble of Residenztheater: René Dumont, Marcel Heuperman, Sylvana Krappatsch, Cynthia Micas, Wolfram Rupperti & Thomas Schmauser

 Ultima Vez-dancers: Borna Babić, Zoe Gyssler, Horacio Macuaca & Aymara Parola

DRAMATURGY: Götz Leineweber

SCENOGRAPHY: Vincent Glowinski & Wim Vandekeybus

LIVE PAINTING: Vincent Glowinski

SOUNDTRACK & LIVE-EXECUTION: Dijf Sanders

COSTUMES: Isabelle Lhoas

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PHOTO: Danny Willems

 A production of Residenztheater München (DE) and Ultima Vez (BE).