- By Euripides A New Version by Anne Carson
- with Original Music by Diana Oh
- Directed by Mike Donahue
- Choreographed by Willia Noel Montague
Party Like it’s 399 BC
This isn’t your English teacher’s Greek tragedy. Dionysus, the god of wine, is totally over everyone’s drama so he’s going to incite the women of the land to raise hell in this immersive explosion of the classic play. Featuring original music, debauchery, and a whole lot of wine, Bakkhai is a cautionary tale about the consequences of a civilization’s fear of the unknown.
RUN TIME: 1 hour and 45 minutes with no intermission
SENSORY WARNING: This production contains strobes, loud boom sound effects, and the use of liquids on stage.
CONTENT TRANSPARENCY: this production contains strong language, descriptions of violence, and blood.
Mike Donahue, Director
Mike Donahue is a New York-based director. NYC credits include: world premieres of Matthew Lopez’s The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC, The Geffen and Denver Center, Joe A. Callaway Award, Outer Critics Circle Nomination, Ovation Award Nomination); Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage (MCC, Woolly Mammoth, Drama League Nomination), The Moors (Playwrights Realm – NYC premiere), and Phoebe in Winter (Clubbed Thumb); Jordan Seavey’s Homos, Or Everyone In America (Labyrinth); and Ethan Lipton’s Red-Handed Otter (Playwrights Realm). Regionally: Little Shop of Horrors with MJ Rodriguez, George Salazar and Amber Riley (Pasadena Playhouse), world premieres of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate (Humana, Williamstown, Long Wharf), Wink (Marin); Rachel Bonds’ Curve of Departure (South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre), The Wolfe Twins (Studio Theatre) and Swimmers (Marin); Kate Cortesi’s Love (Marin); Matthew Lopez’s Zoey’s Perfect Wedding & Lauren Feldman’s Grace, or The Art of Climbing (Denver Center); and Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki in a new libretto by Meg Miroshnik (Chicago Opera Theatre). Mike is recipient of a Fulbright to Berlin, the Dramaleague Fall Fellowship, The Boris Sagal Fellowship at Williamstown, winner of the Inaugural Opera America Director-Designer Showcase Award and was the artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret for two seasons. Mike is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama. Upcoming: Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance (The Geffen) and the world premieres of Ana Nogueira’s Here She Is, Boys (MCC) and Matt Schatz’s A Wicked Soul In Cherry Hill (The Geffen).
Diana Oh, Original Music
Diana Oh (they/them) is an open channel to the art that feels good to their body and is driven most by pleasure, mutual care and keeping things heart-centered. Oh is an Actor, Singer-Songwriter, Writer and a Creator of Installations, Experiences, Rituals, Concerts, Parties and Unboxable Art. Oh is the Creator of {my lingerie play} (ten underground performance installations in my lingerie staged in an effort to provide a safer, more courageous world for women, queer, trans and non-binary humans to live in, culminating into a concert of Oh’s music), Clairvoyance (a year-long installation, tree-planting and concert series celebrating Queer Magic in Harvard Yard, the Boston Public Library, Institute of Contemporary Art and Harvard Arboretum with A.R.T.), The Infinite Love Party (an intentional barefoot potluck dinner, dance party and sleepover for QTPOC and Their Allies; Bushwick Starr), My H8 Letter to the Great American Theatre (Public Theater), Asian People are Not (mic.com) and was the mentor for Cherry Lane’s Mentor Project 2020 for Shawn Randall’s (The Making of) How to Save the World… TV/Film: “Queering”, “How To Be Single”, “New York is Dead”, “Hey Yun”, “Unicornland”. Additionally, Oh is a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer, the first Queer Korean American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio, a TOW Fellow (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Van Lier Fellow in Acting (Asian American Arts Alliance), Venturous Capital Fellow, Sundance Institute Fellow, Helen Merrill Award recipient and band member of the U.S. Open. Oh tours with their art in unexpected spaces and enjoys not fitting into boxes. UPCOMING: The Gift Project (a Concert and Interview Series Centering Elders of Marginalized Identities; All-for-One), Arden.
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