Bacchae

Text – Direction Lena Kitsopoulou

Set & costume design Magdalini Avgerinou

Music composition Nikos Kypourgos

Lighting design Nikos Vlassopoulos

Assistant to the director Marilena Moschou

Live video Alexandros Vetoulis

Cast Stella Vogiatzaki, Lena Kitsopoulou, Dina Mihailidou, Giannis Mparitakis, Thodoris Skyftoulis, Yiorgos Triantafyllidis

Singing Lefteris Pantazis

Photography Lena Kitsopoulou

Production management & executive producer – Evangelos Constas / Constantly Productions

When the new religion starts being imposed and Dionysus, in his human form, is presented as its spokesperson, the problem is already visible. It feels like something is wrong when religion, in general, is imposed; it is a junta, an authoritarian act we’re dealing with, and we shouldn’t, in any way, call “religion” something that is imposed, but gives people the impression they chose it.

When a mother kills her child in the name of religion or ideology; when women fall in love with a man of ideology, with the representative of a party, well, it’s a sickness we’re dealing with; not to mention when they murder their own child out of love for that kind of ideologist-missionary-preacher-alcoholic who cracks with the first bite of grapes and lets sigmas fill his mouth.

From the moment a mother kills her child or the other way around, from the moment a son kills his father so as not to be killed by him, perhaps it would be better if parents didn’t raise children or didn’t socialise with them that much. For the sake of humanity.