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Dionysus in 69 was a theatrical production directed and conceived by Richard Schechner, founder and longtime artistic director of the Performance Group (TPG), a New York-based experimental theater troupe.
Dionysus in '69 is a 1970 film directed by Brian De Palma, Robert Fiore and Bruce Rubin. The film records a performance of The Performance Group's stage play of the same name, an adaptation of The Bacchae. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
Mar 22, 1970 · Dionysus in '69: Directed by Brian De Palma, Robert Fiore, Bruce Joel Rubin, Richard Schechner. With Remi Barclay, Samuel Blazer, Jason Bosseau, Richard Dia. Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. 'Dionysus in 69' is the first performance of The Performance Group that emerged in 1968 from a workshop led by Richard Schechner in November 1967 shortly after he arrived from Tulane University to teach at NYU.
Aug 30, 2006 · Dionysus in ’69 is a feature-length split-screen, a bifurcated recording of what was one of the New York avant-garde theater world’s more controversial productions: a loose interpretation of Euripides’s Bacchae performed in and around its audience in a garage that frequently detoured into simulated sex acts and modern political soapboxing.
Overview. Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text. Filmed by Brian De Palma. Bruce Joel Rubin.
Synopsis. Proclaiming himself the Greek god Dionysus, actor William Finley invites the audience in a Greenwich Village garage to participate in a nude orgiastic ritual. Although Pentheus, King of Thebes, denounces Dionysus, he later comes under the god's influence and joins the bacchanal.
