Some pictures of our maenads rehearsal for The Bacchae: A Ritual of Coming Out which is happening on November 13-14th, 8:00PM at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 1519 Mission St, SF.
Starting to get it. Starting to get crazy. Come, O ye Bacchae, come!
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- By His own joy I vow, By the grape upon the bough, Thou shalt seek Him in the midnight, thou shalt love Him, even now!
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- O glad, glad on the mountains To swoon in the race outworn, When the holy fawn-skin clings, And all else sweeps away…
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- And now his sword is fallen, and he lies outworn and wan Who dared to rise against his God in wrath, being but man.
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- Dark and of the dark impassioned Is this Pentheus’ blood; yea, fashioned Of the Dragon, and his birth From Echion, child of Earth. He is no man, but a wonder.
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- And don thy fawn-skin, fringed in purity With fleecy white, like ours. Oh, cleanse thee in the wands’ waving pride! Yea, all men shall dance with us and pray, When Bromios his companies shall guide…
