LIVE ON SCREEN: Dionysus in 69

Date
Wed November 12th 2014, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Event Sponsor
Stanford Department of Theater + Performance Studies
Location
Room 125, Memorial Auditorium
LIVE ON SCREEN: Dionysus in 69

“A film of extraordinary grace and power.” -- The New York Times. Produced, directed, shot, and edited by Brian De Palma, Robert Fiore, and Bruce Rubin, Dionysus in 69 documents a landmark late-'60s experimental-theater work. Adapted by theater director Richard Schechner and the Performance Group as an eroticized and politicized version of Euripides' {+The Bacchae}, Dionysus in 69's "total theater" style aimed to redefine the relationship between the theater experience and "real life," with the audience invited to participate in as well as watch the play. Dionysus in 69 challenges notions of the orthodox theater by deconstructing Euripides' text, interpolating text and action devised by the performers, and involving the spectators in an active and sensory artistic experience.
Hosted by Professor Branislav Jakovljevic. An Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, he specializes in avant-garde and experimental theater, performance theory, critical theory, and performance and politics. He has published essays on a broad variety of subjects, from history of late nineteenth-century theater, to Russian and Soviet avant-garde, to contemporary American experimental performance.