LOCATION: Fortress Minor, Mali Brijun
LANGUAGE: Croatian, with English subtitles
PRODUCTION: Theatre Ulysses

The boat (Fažana – Mali Brijun) leaves at 8:30 PM.

There are twelve women in group psychotherapy. Each of them with her own burden and desires seeking refuge from the patriarchal, capitalist, ruthless world where it has become inadmissible to show any weakness or lose control. On the path to liberation from the state of compulsive normality, they enter the mythic world of Euripides’ Bacchae and lead us to a profound journey into the human nature: through the eternal conflict of the Apollonian and Dionysian principles, the reason on which the Western civilization and our primal instincts, fears and needs are established.

“The result is the actor’s performance of an extremely rebellious energy, like dark swarming, and immediately afterwards a song of individual female voices. The performance ambience, however, does not remind us of the occasional gathering of street demonstrations, but of the elevated rituality of collective entry into the mystery of genuine gathering around dark emotions. (…) This is the first direction of The Bacchae which I had seen in a long time in which Bacchae have both indefinitely their own faces (individually presented to the public) and a common song of rebellion.”(Natasa Govedic for Novi List, July 2018)