“IO, Tebas! Terreira! Mama de Semele Coroa a tua cabeça de hera! Pra sangrar, pra brotar A vinha verde Os novos frutos. Te fantasia! Pra dançar nas bacanais Com ramo de pinheiro e palmares Com pele de viadinho Plumas e brilhos Pega com fé A vara libertina Que a terra toda vai dançar!”
(Canto das Bacantes)

A última tragédia grega conhecida, Bakxai (406 a.c.) de Eurípedes, BACANTES. Reconstitui o ritual de origem do teatro em 25 cantos e 5 episódios, com música composta por José Celso Martinez Corrêa.
É a chegada do deus Dionysios, deus do teatro, do vinho, do carnaval, filho de Zeus e da mortal Semelle, em sua cidade natal, TebaSP, que não o reconhece como deus.
Seduzidos por esse deus que acabou de chegar, o governador Kadmos, suas filhas Agave, Autonoe, Ino e “tudo quanto é mulher da Cadméia” vão pro morro, pra participar da festa de Dionysios.
Penteu, neto do governador, agora presidente de TebaSP, manda cortar, não oferece nada para os ritos da nova religião dionizíaca, e por isso acaba caindo na tragédia provocada por Dionysios e perdendo a cabeça na festa pelas mãos da mãe Agave.

BACANTES é a peça que inspirou a atual arquitetura do Erro! Indicador não definido, dos arquitetos Lina Bo Bardi e Edson Elito. O teatro tem no seu conjunto uma cachoeira, um jardim, um teto-móvel que se abre para o céu de São Paulo e uma pista ladeada de arquibancadas.
Apresentada para 2.600 espectadores em Riberão Preto, BACANTES foi em 1995, a grande atração do Festival de Teatro Grego dessa cidade do Estado de São Paulo. No ano seguinte, no festival internacional de teatro no Rio de Janeiro, Rio Cena Contemporânea, a montagem do Teatro Oficina, foi considerada o acontecimento cultural do ano na cidade. Em São Paulo a peça permaneceu em cartaz durante seis meses em 1996. Suas três únicas apresentações em Salvador, num circo montado no Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, atraiu mais de 3.500 espectadores, numa festa de delirante alegria.

A peça recebeu o Prêmio Shell da melhor iluminação (Cibele Forjaz). Com 3h45min de duração e dois intervalos de 15min, BACANTES, é uma superprodução de Erro! Indicador não definido, UZYNA UZONA, sob direção de Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa.

The last known tragedy, Bakxai (406 a.c) by Euripedes, BACANTES. It rebuilds the ritual of the theatre’s origin in 25 chants and 5 episodes with music composed by José Celso Martinez Correa It’s the arrival of the god Dionysios, god the theatre, of the wine, of carnival, son of Zeus and of the mortal woman Semelle, to his home town Tebas(São Paulo) that does not recognize him as a god.
Seduced by this newly arrived god, the governor Kadmos, his daughters Agave, Autonoe, Ino and all the women from Kadmeia go to hill(morro) to join Dionysios’s party.
Pentheu the governor’s grandson, president of Tebas(São Paulo), does not send any offerings for the new dionizic religion. For this reason he is caught in the tragedy proked by Dionysios and is beheaded during the party by his mother Agave. Bacantes is the play which has inspired the present architecture of the Oficina Theatre, by the architects Lina Bo Bardi and Edson Elito.
In is setting the theatre has a cascade, a garden, a movable ceiling-roof which opens up to the São Paulo sky and benches alongside of a ramp. Presented to 2.600 spectators in Ribeirão Preto – Bacantes was in 1995, the big attraction of the Greek Theatre Festival, held in this city of São Paulo State.

In the follwing year at the Theatre Internacional Festival in Rio – Rio Cena Contemporânea – the setting of Oficina Theatre was considered the city’s cultural big event of the year. In São Paulo the play was on for six months in 1996.
More than 3.500 people watched the only 3 presentations held in a circus tent put up at the Modern Art Museum of Salvador in Bahia, which turned out to be a party of delirious joy. The play received the Shell Awards for best lighting (Cibele Forjaz).
With a three hour and forty-five minutes duration and with two fifteen minute breaks, Bacantes is a super production under the direction of José Celso Martinez Correa.
The Montage from the theater company Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona under direction of José Celso Martinez Côrrea gathers up 47 people in a spectacle with live video and music, DJs, VJs, camera-actors, dacing colorful lights, moving sets and magical costume.
SYNOPSES
This Production of The Bacchae (Euripedes 405 ac) brings back the original ritualistic Theater in 25 chants and five episodes. Directed by acclaimed brazilian theater director José Celso Martinez Correa and enacted by the company Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona, it sings out the come back of Dionysus (Bacchus), the god of wine, the inspirer of pleasure and of the Theater, to his birth town. Also to the antagonism of Pentheus, mayor of Thebes who tries to ban the realization of the Bacchus’ rituals/Dionysiac cults officialised by Dionysos himself and the Chorus of Satyrs and Bacchantes on the hills of the capital, governed by Cadmus. In Brazilian literary and musical linguistics it inaugurates the Opera of Carnival ElectroKamdomblaica, Electronic music mixed with African/Brazilian Mythological beats from the Candomble faith, A TRAGYCOMÉDIORGYA (tragedy+comedy+orgy) of rhythmic speeches in the episodes, and in the dancing chants of the electrical Chorus of protagonists, in the primitive rhythms of tecno_afro_native_brazilians, added to the electronic sound designing and live band. This play is always done as a ritual, party, celebration of tragic and sensual happiness, with an intense interaction of the public as it used to be done in the time of the giant and popular Greek Theaters with packed crowds only found today in football stadiums and big rock festivals.
Crew list:
Text “Anthropophagized” by:
CATHERINE HIRSHI
DENISE ASSUNÇÃO
MARCELO DRUMMOND
ZÉ CELSO MARTINEZ CORREA
Regent Poet of Scenic Action:
JOSÉ CELSO MARTINEZ CORREA
Musical Director:
MARCELO PELLEGRINI
Producer:
ANA RÚBIA DE MELO
Scene Direction:
ELISETE JEREMIAS
CAST:
Dionysos
MARCELO DRUMMOND
Pentheus
SILVIO GUINDANE
Semele
ANNA GUILHERMINA
Zeus
HECTOR OTHON
Hera
VERA BARRETO LEITE
Autonoe
ADRIANA VIEGAS
Ino and Moor girl life knitter
NAOMY SCHOLLING
Agave
CELLIA NASCIMENTO
Cadmus, Messenger II and Employee
PASCOAL DA CONCEIÇÃO
Tiresias
ZÉ CELSO MARTINEZ CORREA
Pan and Messenger I
ANTHERO MONTENEGRO
Ganymedes e Cupid
ARICLENES BARROSO
Ion
RODRIGO ANDREOLLI
Ampelos
LUCAS WEGLINSKI
Moor girl life pusher
LETÍCIA COURA
Moor girl life cutter
JULIANE ELTING
Harmonia
FABIANA SERRONI
Afro Dita
MÁRCIO TELLES
Bacchantes
CAMILA MOTA
PATRÍCIA WINCESKI
ODARA CARVALHO
Satyrs
ACAUÃ SOL
MARIANO MATTOS MARTINS
Anthropophagy Band
CASSIO MARTINS (bass guitar)
ITO ALVES (percussion)
FÁBIO GALIO (drums)
MARCELO SANCHEZ (electric guitar)
MARCELO PELLEGRINI (piano)
Liturgical costume designer
SYLVIA PRADO
Scenic Architect
CRIS CORTÍLIO
Ritualistic object creator
RICARDO COSTA
CYBERTIAZOS
Sound Design
RODRIGO GAVA
Microphones
RAMON CARVALHO
Creator and light designer
RICARDO MORAÑEZ
Light Operators
DANIEL CAMILO
JUSCELINO WABES
Video – cameras
CASSANDRA MELLO
RENATO BANTI
Video –live editing & projection
JAIR MOLINA
Scene dresser
CIDA MELO
Scene technician
RAFAEL GUIRARDELO
Stage Manager
AGUINALDO ROCHA
Executive Producer
CARILA MATZENBACHER