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Peter Hall's 'Bacchai': The National Theatre at Work
Contributor(s): Croall, Jonathan (Author), Hall, Peter (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1840028173     ISBN-13: 9781840028171
Publisher: Oberon Books
OUR PRICE:   $21.73  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2009
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Annotation: Jonathan Croall's book offers an intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical artists brought one of the masterpieces of Greek theater to the stage. This new edition includes an extra chapter on the production's visit to the ancient theater of Epidaurus in Greece, and a new foreword by Peter Hall.
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 792.023
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 104 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

'Bacchai is one of the top dozen plays ever written. Whenever it's performed, it seems extraordinarily timely. It's haunted me all my life.'
Peter Hall

After huge successes with Aeschylus' The Oresteia and Sophocles' The Oedipus Plays, Peter Hall turned to Bacchai, Euripides' powerful tragedy about the cult of Dionysus. On the National's Olivier stage he presented a stunningly imaginative production played in masks, using a new translation by Colin Teevan, with original music by Harrison Birtwhistle, and designs by Alison Chitty.
Jonathan Croall observed the rehearsal process in minute detail, regularly interviewing the actors and creative team as the production moved from readthrough to preview. His book offers an intimate and absorbing picture of how a team of world-class theatrical talents brought one of the masterpieces of Greek theatre to the stage.

This new edition includes an extra chapter on the production's visit to the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Greece, and a new foreward by Peter Hall.