The Bacchae

The historic Marcido theatre group, now celebrating the fortieth anniversary of their artistic adventure, is once again tackling Greek tragedy, tackling Euripides for the first time at the Vascello Theater with a rewriting of The Bacchae by director Marco Isidori, who brings Attic sensibility into today's climate.

The tragedy, written by Euripides between 407 and 406 BC, a few months before his death, is reinterpreted through the lens of the grotesque: the ancient catharsis is characterized by a markedly playful dimension in which the game of theater triumphs, entrusted to the voice of a tragic chorus that becomes the Marcido Chorus, a catalyst for overwhelming scenic energy, a single voice, one with the scenic machinery that dominates the stage.

The stage is dominated by the Palace of Pentheus, king of Thebes, the latest of the extraordinary inventions of set designer Daniela Dal Cin (who was a finalist for the Ubu Awards for the Palace in "Oedipus Rex"). The actors scale it, besiege it, clamber over and inside the architecture, opening trapdoors and revealing hidden mechanisms, in the spirit of that surprising imagination that is the most vivid and characteristic symbol of the Marcidos' theater.

Rewritten by Marco Isidori; with Paolo Oricco, Maria Luisa Abate, Valentina Battistone, Ottavia Della Porta, Alessio Arbustini, Alessandro Bosticco. Directed by Marco Isidori, co-produced by Marcido Marcidorjs and Famosa Mimosa/Teatro Stabile di Torino-Teatro Nazionale.

Marcido is a theater group founded in 1986 by director and actor Marco Isidori, set and costume designer Daniela Dal Cin, and actress Maria Luisa Abate. Characterized by a marked experimentalism, the group has undertaken a quest for the total work of art, called “further theatre”.

Photo: official poster of the show