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Screening: Dionysus in 69
December 6, 2009
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Back in January, AFS presented DIONYSUS IN '69 as part of the Essential Cinema series "First Blood: The Early Films of Brian De Palma." Now, to coincide with the re-staging of DIONYSUS IN '69 from Dec. 3-20 at the Off Center by renowned Austin theater group Rude Mechanicals, we're thrilled to present the film again, this time with the director of the original performance, Richard Schechner, in attendance.
When Richard Schechner's The Performance Group put on a notoriously uninhibited update of the Euripedes play "The Bacchae" in a Greenwich Village garage, it became the talk of New York and solidified the group's reputation at the forefront of avant garde theater. Brian De Palma was floored when he saw a performance and immediately set out to devise a way to present the fourth-wall-obliterating play in cinematic form. He presents it in split-screen, with cameras recording both the cast and the audience as they intermingle in a writhing, orgiastic expression of Dionysian abandon.
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320 East 6th Street
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Tickets: $6/$4 for AFS members
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December 6, 2009Times:
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