The Bacchae 2.1

Update of a classic Greek play. The Bacchae 2.1 was developed in collaboration with Greg Gunter as dramaturg and first performed in l993 in the Mark Taper Forum's Festival of New Work, where it was directed by Brian Kulick.

The Bacchae 2.1 composed in the way that Max Ernst made his Fatagaga pieces at the end of World War I, has been based on, or taken in part from, among others, Euripides, Georges Bataille, Klaus Theweleit, Wilhelm Stekel, "insane" texts from the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto, Joan Nestle's Femme-Butch texts, Pat Califia, Jeanne Cordova, Barbara Duden, Mary Maclane, Aimable Jayet, Sei Shonagon.