Announcing the results of the student competition Playing Bacchae

June 20, 2023
Graffiti of a woman with spread arms against a red background next to a black background with the caption \"Playing Bacchae\".

The Out of Chaos theater in the context of the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, with the support of CHS US & Greece and the Department of Theatre Studies, School of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese implemented the Greek leg of the “Playing Bacchae” competition. The competition invited undergraduate students from Greek Universities' Departments of Theatre Studies, and theater schools, as well as students from Greek high schools, to experiment, perform (or recite) scenes from Euripides's tragedy Bacchae, record their interpretation of a scene (or more) from the famous tragedy and submit it to participate.

CHS Greece extends its heartfelt congratulations to the winners of the student competition, as well as all the student groups that submitted entries. 

Undergraduate-level competition category

First place: Group of female students from the Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese

Second place: NOTOS Theater School in Crete

Third place: Theatrologists Cartel

High-school-level competition category

First place: Argolida Music School

Second place: Arsakeio Gymnasium of Thessaloniki

Third place: Arsakeio General Lyceum of Patras