Peter Hall's 'Bacchai': The National Theatre at Work

by Jonathan Croall

'Bacchai is one of the top dozen plays ever written. Whenever it's performed, it seems extraordinarily timely. It's haunted me all my life.'
Peter Hall

After huge successes with Aeschylus' The Oresteia and Sophocles' The Oedipus Plays, Peter Hall turned to Bacchai, Euripides' powerful tragedy about the cult of Dionysus. On the National's Olivier stage he presented a stunningly imaginative production played in masks, using a new translation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840028173
• ISBN13: 9781840028171
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"