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Bacchai (2002)
Manuel Harlan2002
National Theatre
London, United Kingdom
Bacchai (2002) chorus with masks
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- Title: Bacchai (2002)
- Long Description: Peter Heple for The Stage 23.5.02 ‘There is nothing more calculated to put off the most dedicated theatregoer than the prospect of a Greek tragedy, particularly if it is played in masks. But I defy anyone not to be stirred, disturbed and amazed by Peter Hal’s production of Euripides’ play...’ Charles Spencer for the Telegraph 21/5/02 ‘Hall’s mask work is a fascinating experiment that has turned into a dogmatic habit.’ Michael Billington on the masks in Peter Hall’s Oresteia (1981) ‘The first problem is that of the masks. You can rationalise till you’re blue in the face (and some very strange arguments are used in the programme to justify the masks) but the blunt Emperor-has-no-clothes truth is that masks make language very difficult to hear and deny the actor one of his most basic weapons’.
- Creator: Manuel Harlan
- Date: 2002
- Location: The National Theatre
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