![]() ![]() He won only four times in his lifetime at Dionysian theatre festivities, which were held every spring and once posthumously (for a group of plays including The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis). Ninety-two tragedies, out of which only nineteen have survived, and a satyr play have been attributed to his name. He was a well-educated man at the time and many chronicles indicate that he was in possession of a personal library. The thing that started as mild, pleasurable and loving turned into brutality.Įuripides was born on the island of Salamis, near Athens, most probably in 485 BC. But then, only a few years later, there was a war in Vietnam, murder of Sharon Tate Polanski and events in Manson’s house. During rehearsals we talked about the 60’s, about how everything was great – there was free love, sex, Woodstock, flower power, music, everything that was out of ordinary, very strict society. I don’t expect the modern audience anywhere, be it in Stockholm, Berlin or Belgrade, to know the whole Greek mythology, therefore the play is based neither on mythical nor on historic point of view. Comical and funny parts exist only to make the tragedy even more severe at the end. The “Bacchae” have that Shakespearean moment – there is no tragedy without a comedy. Talking about common opinion that Greek drama is something boring and static, the director is representative of future audience during rehearsals and I don’t accept to be bored while I work. ![]()
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