Sam Jenkins-Shaw

A Hollywood production rolls into a small Irish town and throws the spotlight on a secret that's been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.

Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.

In Laura Wade’s clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface.