RC production of The Bacchae

U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a new god, Bacchus, in his city. The young god leads all the women of Thebes to the mountains to frolic and dance with wild animals, and is avenged when his followers (including Pentheus’s own mother) tear the king to pieces. Also April 12.