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QUT School of Creative Arts 2025 | March-May 2025
Writer: Euripides, Adapted by Anne Carson
Director: Flynn Hall
Production Manager: Aaron Jeffery
Producer: Andrea Moor
Fight Choreographer: NJ Price
Performed by graduating QUT acting students
Designed, stage managed, and assistant directed by QUT technical production, drama and dance students
PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION
Anne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkahi is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is a god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up.”
Bakkhai’s themes and the initial aesthetic introduced by our director were the biggest aspects that intrigued me, using words like raw, primal, sexual and women frolicking through fields as descriptors.
This immediately peaked my interest as my directing passion lives within feminist plays and their unfiltered exploration of the female experience, which Bakkhai explores in an entirely different world to our own.
Furthermore, the team being filled with young creatives filled my heart and getting to collaborate alongside them was a privilege.
As an assistant director I was tasked to scene event breakdowns, to ensure that everyone was on the same page about the events that carried weight and the lines that are integral to the storytelling.
Using this dramaturgical technique allowed for a dense and complicated text to be simplified, ensuring that the actors were aware of what lines must have the correct emotional weight, as they are key to the audiences understanding.
This was in integral process to my work as an assistant director as it allowed for the play to be fun and entertaining but also thought-provoking as the thoughts were very clearly placed into audiences minds.
Through my work on scenes and with the actors, I was able to explore the female experience in the lens of friendship, assessing what it means to have close female friendships and how they would look on stage in this context.
This required humanising the text, and delving into what is really being explored in the subtext, and simplifying the scenes and moments into what they actually mean to each character.
I’d love to work with you! Please email production work inquiries and opportunities if you’d love to work with me!
