The UBC Department of Theatre & Film production,  The Bacchae 2.1 , runs until February 7 at the Frederic Wood Theatre.

Written by Charles L. Mee and directed by Dennis Gupa, The Bacchae 2.1 brings together the play by Euripides with influences from German literary theorist Klaus Theweleit, Valerie Solanas,  and Joan Nestle’s “Lesbian Herstory Archives”. These resources are available in the UBC Library collection:

• Lesbian Herstory Archives. AW1 .R-9464  (Koerner Library)
  More than 150 reels of microform – of materials not yet digitized – are available at Koerner Library, Level 2.  You can read, print or save to disk. Microform help is available during Research Commons and Reference Help hours.
• Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto. New York; London: Verso, 2004. HQ1075 .S64 2004 (UBC Okanagan).
  Also available in
  Crow, Barbara A., ed. Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2000. HQ1426 .R325 2000 (Koerner Library)
• Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies. 2 Vol. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. UA717 .T4713  (Koerner Library)

And some related items for further reading:

• Bacchantes. directed by George Ferroni. Film.  VMatica.VHS-161 (Koerner Library)
• Euripides, et al. Bakkhai. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Euripides, transl. Paul Woodruff. Bacchae. Indianapolis, Ind: Hackett Pub. Co, 1998. PA3975.B2 W66 1998 (Koerner Library)
• Fischer-Lichte, Erika. Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ the Bacchae in a Globalizing World. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014.
• Goff, Barbara E. Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.  Also available in print: PA3015.W65 G65 2004  (Koerner Library)
• McDonald, Marianne. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. PA3131 .M38 2003 (Koerner Library)
• Stieber, Mary C. Euripides and the Language of Craft. Vol. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2011. PA3992 .S75 2011 (Koerner Library)