PROPS LIST FOR THE BACCHAE
- Thyrsoi – 12 (CHORUS), plus 2 (CADMUS, TEIRESIAS)
- 2 Wreaths (for head), CADMUS & TEIRESIAS
- Small frame drums for CHORUS
- Pan pipes sets for CHORUS
- Staffs: for ATTENDANT, CATTLE HERDER
- Sage (to burn on top of tomb, for smoke effect)?
- Ivy (around tomb, and on stage, in audience)
- Rough wood statue/doll of Dionysos to carry down from top (Parodos)– ivy-covered, should possibly be able to stand on its own (stand?) – roughly human sized, taller than Chorus members (7 feet?)
- “stretcher” for Pentheus’ body parts
- Pentheus’ body parts
- Pentheus’ head – 3D, to be carried in by Agave – looks like lion cub? or not
- Dancing ribbons on wands – mixed with birds, etc.? – to imitate smoke, lightning, and birds/butterflies/tree branches, etc. (12?)
- fruits (especially grapes!) to be given out by ushers before show
to be continued…
SOME SET DESIGN notes and needs
- PALACE ENTRANCE (UC) – must “totter,” “fall” during lightning strike
- TOMB of SEMELE (DL) – smoking (sage?)
- “Pennant” to advertise play
to be continued…!