Coventry on Medea: “I'm currently writing a version of Euripides' Medea for a theatre in London”
Glorious Exploits on Medea: “We’re going to do Medea in the quarry. But not just bits and pieces. We’re going to do the whole play.”
The Secret History on The Bacchae: “I thought of the Bacchae, a play whose violence and savagery made me uneasy, as did the sadism of its bloodthirsty god.”
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye on The Bacchae: “Orhan stood against the ruined stage and said something incantatory in Turkish which he then explained to Gillian was Dionysus' first speech, his terrible, smiling, threatening speech at the beginning of The Bacchae.”
The Last of the Wine on The Bacchae: “Dionysos wears such a pleasant mask in the play where he sends out King Pentheus to be torn by maenads”
The Mask of Apollo on The Bacchae: “And I remembered the last time I had been up here; it was in The Bacchae, appearing as the god to close the play”
Glorious Exploits on The Bacchae: “That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human … is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them. —Euripides, The Bacchae (epigraph)”