On Oct. 23, Duke Players opened their fall show “The Bacchae,” directed by senior JR Cassidy. This production, like many others of Duke Players, took place in Brody Theater, a theatre that perfectly ...

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Sharon Small leads an excellent cast in a bold but banal Bacchae for the National Theatre's brand new Artistic Director's debut show. Warrior women and uppity females are very much in evidence in Nima ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) Warning: this article contains spoilers. Indhu Rubasingham has begun her tenure as the director of the National Theatre with her production of Bacchae , playwright Nima ...

Indhu Rubasingham has begun her tenure as the director of the National Theatre with her production of Bacchae, playwright Nima Taleghani’s new version of Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy. A play about ...

BACCHAE at the Olivier opens thrillingly when a vast illuminated halo rises to prominence, in its centre a massive white horse powering towards us with quivering mane and pools for eyes. At once, we ...

It’s a manifesto, how can it not be. For her first production as the first female Director of the National Theatre, and first of colour, Indhu Rubasingham throws open the doors of the Olivier with an ...

Here we go. Nearly two years after her appointment was announced, Indhu Rubasingham’s tenure as artistic director of the National Theatre gets underway. Euripides’ Bacchae tells the myth of the god ...