The Bacchanals are a theatre company based in Wellington, New Zealand, dedicated to exploring text-based theatre. Formed in 2000, The Bacchanals are not interested in clever staging & choreography, directorial concepts, sets, costumes, props, design or technology but a form of theatre where the only important ingredients are the performers and their relationship with the audience and the play they are performing. The Bacchanals believe theatre can and should happen anywhere and everywhere, hence the Latin motto hic et ubique. Their productions have included an outdoor rendering of The Frogs, an Othello performed in an inner city warehouse apartment, an award-winning, full-text promenade Hamlet and the NZ premiere of Sarah Kane's Crave. The Bacchanals hope to stage at least two shows a year for the foreseeable future - they'd like to do a lot more than that, but have to be realistic given their financial resources. The Bacchanals are always looking for new spaces and new risks and believe that no crazy plan is too crazy. The Bacchanals believe you can always create something out of nothing, that you don't need vast amounts of money to stage a show, that audiences shouldn't have to pay a fortune to see theatre and that passion, energy and intelligence are fundamental to any performance.
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