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androgynous figure. Bare-chested and in a small loincloth, with only slightly longer hair than one might then have expected from one's bank manager, he was a clearly male leader of rebellion; the chorus of maenads became a predominantly male chorus of slaves, only some of whom were female. Whereas in
Euripides' play Pentheus is a young man (cousin, and potential mirror image of Dionysus), in this production John Shrapnel seemed old enough to be a father figure, and thereby a generational difference was introduced.
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Bacchantes, and a "fully negroid" actor for the Slave Leader, but in the National Theatre's production all the other named characters were played by white actors. Martin Shaw, as Dionysus, was not an
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dissolving into chaos, Pentheus's head begins to spurt blood, that transforms into wine. In
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