Mad women, divine punishment, and “Dionysus”
about 60 months ago (06/04/2019)
Mad women, divine punishment, and “Dionysus” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of Arts House Limited June 4, 2019 By Corrie Tan (1,700 words, eight-minute read) This review contains spoilers and/or plot points for The Bacchae, a 2,500-year-old ancient Greek tragedy; Beware of Pity, a 1939 German novel adapted for the stage by the Schaubühne Berlin and Complicité; as well as the final season of the fantasy television epic Game of Thrones, which concluded last month after an eight-year run. All these mad women! Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, her face quivering with rage astride her dragon, till this point a folk heroine overthrowing slavers and tyrants, decides she’ll reduce a city to ash.