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      Dionysus in '69

      1970 1h 25m Drama List
      Reviews 43% Audience Score 50+ Ratings An adaptation of Euripides' "The Bacchae" explores religion, sexuality, sacrifice and devotion. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member When puberty hit, Creative Writing class taught us metaphors, and my internal Lion goddess was born, and I started writing stories about murder and death and suicide, which prompted a good talking-to from my homeroom teacher who was concerned I was both anorexic (I didn't eat in front of Others) and a blooming psychopath. I assured her my stories like "Jenny or Benny" where a mental patient slits her wrists and jumps out a window after not being able to gender-identify herself, was all down to watching too much corporate Television shows like "21 Jump Street." I wrote a story about my Grandpa dying and read it before my class and my teacher was crying and she said, "It's so horrible when a loved one passes!" and I replied gleefully "Oh, Gramps is alive and well." Only in my stories was I gonna kill off everything, as the kids cheered when I read my serial killer stories. Gruesome murder and death myths were killing my classmates...with entertainment! In a world of Story created by puberty, please be careful with the driver of the vehicle. She's a lion, and she's fully ready to give Ricky Gervais his last wishes, with stylish grace and gratitude full of lioness. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member To say that de Palma's "Dionysus" "seems to be a collection black and white home movies using hand held cameras" is to completely miss the point of the film. De Palma's film provides a fantastic record of the Performance Group's revolutionary play "Dionysus in 69," a work that reinterpreted Euripides's "Bacchae" using the paradigms of Environmental and Ritual Theatre. Anyone interested in the conext of this interesting film ought to check our Richard Schechner and the Performance Group's script/analysis of the piece, also titled "Dionysus in 69." Point is, you can't watch this film without understanding, or even just mentioning, what de Palma is filming, namely, a significant event in theatre history. We're fortunate to have his record. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis An adaptation of Euripides' "The Bacchae" explores religion, sexuality, sacrifice and devotion.
      Director
      Brian De Palma, Richard Schechner
      Screenwriter
      William Arrowsmith
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 25m