Bacchus in the Boland

English Title
Bacchus in the Boland
Title in Original Language
Bacchus in die Boland
Playwright
Bartho Smit
datePublished
1974
Description
A political satire, the play is an extensively localized adaptation of the Euripides' The Bacchae, set in the Cape winelands (the "Boland") during the Apartheid years. In the play the autocratic (white) wine farmer and his (coloured) foreman switch roles under the influence of Bacchus (or Dionysos), the Greek god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre, who arrives on the farm to become a character in the play.

The text was published by Perskor in 1974.
isBasedOn
The Bacchae

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