Status Updates From The Bacchae and Other Plays

fin. play #2 Orestes: Apollo swooping in a second time to play family counsellor, where the generational trauma lies in being blood-thirsty, god-pleasing, revenge-driven souls. if your mum was Clytemnestra, you too would be haunted and/or inspired by the amount of blood spilled by her and her sister.

fin. play #1 Phoenician Women: that's a messed up family tree, no wonder Apollo said “not today for you or your bloodline”

rhesus ✅

hector is lowkey sassy in this so that was amusing

iphigenia at aulis ✅

reading the phoenician women rn aka reading about oedipus 😭