Our visual interpretion of a performance of the Greek classics, The Bacchae (by IIRA theatre), dramatising the archetypal struggle between the rational, orderly Pentheus and the liberatory, anarchic dangerous Dionysius. What better place to see it played in the coldness of our underground world..
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00:00In the past of distant light and nearby shadows,
00:21like these mythological figures that conjure up before us the vision of a romantic dreamland.
00:35I, Pentheus, once again I walk on, once again, down these paths, walls of red bricks covered the stucco windows through which no light penetrates.
01:05For the sound of advancing footsteps is absorbed by water,
01:11muffling all sound so that nothing can be heard.
01:19As if the ear of the man walking on, once again, down these paths, through this hall and this structure of deception,
01:30among which I was already waiting for you.
01:35Dionysus says,
01:36I saw him, he saw me, and his mysteries he bestowed.
01:41Pentheus says,
01:42Is this the first place where you bring this, God?
01:45Dionysus says,
01:46Every eastern lamb dances these rites.
01:50Pentheus says,
01:51Do you perform your rites by night or day?
01:54Dionysus says,
01:56Chiefly by night, darkness promotes religious awe.
01:59Dionysus says,
02:01Gluteness and impurity for women.
02:04Dionysus says,
02:05That night he had a fearful dream.
02:20If dream be the right word, were a mental and physical experience,
02:26which did indeed befall him in deep sleep.
02:31I have was needed to satisfy this desire that passes before me.
02:42That is why I have come to you.
02:47I to you.
02:50Two motionless figures,
02:58frozen,
03:00watchful,
03:02indifferent.
03:04And the events burst in from outside,
03:08violently overcoming the profound resistance of his spirit,
03:13passed him through,
03:15and left him,
03:16and left him,
03:17left the whole structure of a lifetime trampled on,
03:22ravaged,
03:23and destroyed.
03:24Now look at it.
03:32What do I see?
03:35Look at it.
03:38Go on looking at it until you know what it is.
03:43In its name it is my second home.
03:45You are worth all shots.
03:46This frame does not have the name of the man.
03:47Of course.
03:48You must have the name of the man.
03:49Of course.
03:50Yes,
03:51And the incident.
03:52You have no doubt about it.
03:53You will see him as an eagle.
03:54You are a person.
03:55From across the street.
03:56You can see him as an eagle.
03:57You have no doubt about it.
03:58You are a person.
04:00You are a person.
04:01You have a person.
04:02You have never thought about it.