Cista Mystica presents Martin Shaw’s new rendition of Euripides’ The Bacchae. This is the second volume from a major body of work Shaw has been creating over the past few years. From the primordial caves of antiquity and up through the pagan imagination and Christian mysticism, Shaw wanders centuries, stories and ideas that reconsecrate our relationship to a living earth.
The figure of Dionysus––who abides within Shaw’s version of Tristan and Isolde––is given full and devastating reign in Euripides’ The Bacchae. Insulted by the denigration of his mother, Dionysus brings hallucinatory consequence on the people of Thebes. We enter a world of feminine power, eruptive nature and hard instruction.
‘Fawnskin, ivy garlands, the deadly wand of fennel, we adore the dream of the pinecone. Wake up dark houses! Your instructor has arrived! All are blessed, all are drunk with luck who submit to the shaky mysteries of the Deep God.’
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