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At the heart of Elli Papakonstantinou's The Bacchae, staged at the REF inside the ex-Mattatoio spaces, the classical myth of the Bacchantes is reshaped with a contemporary twist. Archetypal dilemmas—the tug-of-war between desiring and rejecting the unknown, and a divine force that is both liberating and destructive—become a battleground for modern ideas, practices, and aesthetics.