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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Theatre Company aims to immerse audiences in ancient Greece and Dionysian culture when "The Bacchae" is performed at 118 Elliot ...

BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Theatre Company is producing a cozy, intimate Greek tragedy for its winter production this year. "The Bacchae by Euripides" will be presented this March at 118 Elliot Street.

Until this Saturday, the Freeks Theater is performing “Bacchae,” an immersive and wildly creative adaptation of Euripides’ classic tragedy. This show starts on the steps of the Cantor Arts ...

A talented ensemble cast bring Euripides masterpiece to life. The Bacchae (also called The Bacchants or Bakchai in Greek) tells the story of the god Dionysus who comes to the city of Thebes ...

Among them are nymphs called maenads—also known as the Bacchae, or bacchantes, who form the crux of his traveling retinue (the thiasus). Pan, the hirsute fertility god associated with shepherds ...