#bacchanalia — Public Fediverse posts

(very good)
(also *drama takes a huge bite out of "Weekend Woman's Hour" and laughs triumphantly)

The Bacchae
Drama on 4

Euripides’ Greek tragedy reimagined by Katherine Soper. In this new version, myth entwines with modernity to explore the root causes of rebellion.

When a group of young women discover the mysterious and charming Bacchus online, they instantly form an unshakeable devotion to him and to each other. It has awakened something inside of them that cannot be contained. Is this a supportive sisterhood or something more dangerous?

Bacchus ….. Colin Morgan
Joy ….. Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
Song ….. Ella Bruccoleri
Love ….. Matilda Tucker
Freedom ….. Tia Bannon
Agave ….. Clare Corbett
Pentheus ….. Sam Swann
Tiresias ….. Sam Dale
Semele ….. Yasmin Mwanza
Libation ….. Madeleine Clarke

Directed by Gemma Jenkins

Production Co-ordinator: Sara Benaim
Casting Manager: Alex Curran
Sound Design: Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson and Andrew Garratt

The Bacchae by Katherine Soper after Euripides was commissioned and first performed as part of the Springboard Trainee Programme at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in July 2023.

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1 hour, 27 minutes

#BBCRadio4 #BBCRadioDrama #BBCDrama #Bacchanalia #BBCDramaOn4

(... Cordwainer Smith did similar but in a more entertaining sci-fi way with Krishna as the central figure (or was it another Vedic?) in "Under Old Earth" ...)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t10r

Oh, are we doing Last Supper versus Bacchanalian/Dionysian revelry discourse tonight? Fun! All the best fights boil down to drinking contests between the Christians and the pagans. Hint: we always win!

Here's my contribution to the discourse: https://www.erosblog.com/2016/12/24/reveling-reveling-reveling/

Post features the painting "The Youth Of Bacchus" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The youth are drunk, naked, and worshipping their asses off.

#LastSupper #Bacchanalia #Bacchus #Dionysus #Dionysian #Revelry #Worship #Olympics

Die Druckfassung in Händen! 648 S. zu #RömischeReligion, restringierter Kommunikation, Konflikten rings um #Geheimnisse und #Klatsch, und ach ja, #Plautus.

#secrecy #bacchanalia #Attis #MaterMagna #RomanReligion #Antiquity #AncientHistory

https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Religioese-Geheimniskommunikation-in-der-Mittleren-und-Spaeten-Roemischen-Republik/9783515133869

My best known #secret (a new book!) is now available as vol. 82 of the Steiner-series ‚Potsdamer Beiträge‘:

„Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik. Separatheit, gesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit und zivisches Ordnungshandeln.“

#AncientHistory #AncientRome #historyofreligions #MaterMagna #Bacchanalia #Plautus #GeorgSimmel #antiquidons

Update on the #bacchanalia

I managed to sneak the giant bin of recycling down the driveway at 07:00 without waking any neighbours.

The glass recycling truck came past about 16:30

On the next recycling day I’m going to put out a glass recycling bin completely full to overflowing with wine bottles, spirits bottles, bottles from every sort of hard liquor and booze.

People will shake their heads in disgust at my #bacchanalia

The context they lack is that I haven’t put out my glass recycling for nearly a year and this works out to less than a standard drink per week.