![]() ![]() I could not help visualizing Cecile B DeMiles’ version of The Ten Commandments where Moses urges pharaoh several times to accept the rule of god and pharaoh refuses. But Dionysos is a powerful orator, like all successful prophets, his preaching, and his skills of persuasion sway all except Pentheus. The king and his cousin, Pentheus, wants him arrested for sedition. In the play, the messiah factor is really strong with Dionysos claiming to be a god and having the power to exhibit his claims. What is familiar here are the elements of Greek tragedy, but not so much to forget that this is a rather unusual take with some characteristic Soyinka added to it. As I have not read the original play by Euripides, I can only comment by comparing this version to Soyinka’s work in general. ![]() ![]() Soyinka’s version of The Bacchae of Euripides is a divergence from his more locally-themed earlier plays. ![]()
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