The Bakkhai
MA/MFA Collaborative Theatre Making and MA Actor-Musicianship Rose Bruford College - 2025
Dir: Scarlett Spicer
Cast
Kadmos / Bakkhai: Jess Bellamy
Agave: Rosa Cassandra Brook
Dionysos: Gabriela Burkhardt
Thyone: Darcey Hope
Herdsmen / Autonoe: Megan Lakin
Teiresias / Bakkhai: Annaëlle Pion
Servant / Ino: Isabelle Tarran
Pentheus: Hannah Whiteway
Director
Scarlett Spicer
Musical Director
Laura Forrest Hay
Creative Team
Movement Director: Emilia Cadenasso
Set & Costume Designer: Maeve Reading
Lighting Designer: Rachel Fiorito
Audio Engineer: Dom Wilson
Production Team
Production Stage Manager: Jim Broadbent
Deputy Stage Manager: Nick Coppell
Through Anne Carson’s haunting translation of Euripides’ tragedy, this production explores female rage, pleasure and the unsettling relationship between spiritual awakening and patriarchal control. Using live music and Carson’s searing text, the company asks what happens when women revel beyond control.
A ritual. A reckoning. A riot.