The Bacchae
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We’re back on our theatre grind, this time with a play about debauchery, tragedy, and our boy Dionysus: The Bacchae! It’s a play about plays! What’s not to love?
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, dismemberment, immolation, pregnancy, injury, concussion, violence, imprisonment, and animal death.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:05.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends and folklore. |
| 0:33.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.3 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.2 | And this is episode 3.30 about the Bake starting or continuing our trend of ancient plays that are pretty fucked up. |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, I've been in my head calling this mythology as stage plays because, you know, theater kids deserve all of the love. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm looking at my childhood self and I'm being like, hey, hey, theater nerd, you deserve love |
| 0:58.9 | too. And I want to give it to you. Hell yeah. So as you mentioned, Amanda, we're going to be |
| 1:03.6 | talking about the Backe or the Bacay written by Euripides, though it wasn't actually performed |
| 1:09.2 | until Euripides passed away in 405 BCE. |
| 1:14.3 | So it was performed posthumously and was either directed by his son or his nephew. |
| 1:18.6 | No one's like, they didn't keep track about who did it, but all we know is Euripides wrote it. |
| 1:23.7 | They performed it after he died. |
| 1:25.0 | And it is like genuinely considered one of his greatest |
| 1:29.7 | works, if not like one of the greatest tragedies ever written. So keep that in mind as we go |
| 1:35.8 | through that scholars say greatest plays ever written. I love it. And in keeping with my |
| 1:41.1 | younger theater kid's self, saw this when I was 16 when our theater group |
| 1:45.8 | took a optional trip to London in lieu of a sweet 16 party. My parents paid for half of it and I paid |
| 1:51.1 | for half of it and it was wonderful. And we saw the back A, which was messed up, the national |
| 1:57.2 | theater. And it was so fun. Yeah, it is. It's a messed up play. It is a tragedy, and it is not afraid of being a tragedy. |
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