fuckyesbenwhishaw:Bakkhai (& Ben Whishaw) - Press Roundup The Hollywood Reporter“Whishaw plays
fuckyesbenwhishaw:Bakkhai (& Ben Whishaw) - Press Roundup The Hollywood Reporter“Whishaw plays a seductive, vengeful, sexually ambivalent god of pleasure, but the secret weapon at the heart of Bakkhai is its 10-strong all-female chorus, fully integrated into the action.” Guardian Theatre “Under the androgynous grace, however, Whishaw intelligently suggests that there lurks a vindictive cruelty and desire to triumph over insubordinate humans…Yet, while I admired the evening, I never felt I had been transported into a world of passion and terror.”Time Out“The most potent symbol of gender breakdown is Whishaw’s extraordinary, androgynous Dionysus. With waist-length hair and a full gown that he wears with a strange, sexless sensuality, he is the anti-alpha male, yet speaks with a terrifying assurance and command.”The Stage“[Bakkhai’s] a much rawer, earthy production… Ben Whishaw is delicate yet magnetic as Dionysus, impish and strange, clad in a sweeping fawn skin gown with black hair streaming over his shoulders, he is a gender-fluid, mercurial, definitely sexual presence, at times Christ-like.”What’s On Stage“The impact and poetry of the tragedy is all the more powerful for being rooted in its origins; it’s certainly one of the best Greek tragedy – as opposed to geek tragedy - productions I’ve seen for years.” The Arts Desk“Whishaw manages to be both epicene and sexy, softly spoken and menacing, fire and ice… There is music in Whishaw’s intonation, but the true lyric genius belongs to the stasimons of the Bacchae hanging around Thebes.” -- source link
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