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ARTS Fleshing out innovative ’60s theater With help from ‘Dionysus in 69’ director, Rude Mechanicals tackle free-form production. By Jeanne Claire van RyzinAMERICAN-STATESMAN ARTS WRITER Thursday, December 03, 2009 For ‘Dionysus in 69,’ actors let the audience be part of the production. Richard Schechner, the original director of the 1960s production, will give a pre-show […]

‘Bacchae’ to the Future How in (a Greek) god’s name can the Rude Mechs re-create ‘Dionysus in 69’ in ’09? BY ROBERT FAIRES Excerpt: “…Now, four decades after Dionysus in 69 rattled the cages of the American theatre, Schechner has come to Austin much as the titular god came to Thebes: a much-lauded figure out […]