Dionysus in '69

Dionysus in '69 (1970)

A Celebration of Feeling, Loving, Wanting, Killing, Hearing, Tasting, Touching, Living

Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text.

Date of release
1970-03-22
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama
Director
Brian De Palma, Robert Fiore, Bruce Joel Rubin

Casting

Interesting facts

Dionysus in 69 was a theatrical production directed and conceived by Richard Schechner, founder and longtime artistic director of the Performance Group (TPG), a New York-based experimental theater troupe. An adaptation of The Bacchae by Greek playwright Euripides, it was documented in a film by Brian de Palma, Bruce Joel Rubin, and Robert Fiore titled Dionysus in '69.

Production

The film merges the final two performances of the play, from June and July 1969, the final one having been staged with more lighting, for better recording quality. In contrast to the previous non-recorded performances, actors are not fully naked during central scenes so as to ensure distribution to movie theaters. The film makes use of split screen to show both actors and audience involvement in parallel.

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