Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, The Bacchae will tour Scotland this spring and can be seen at Stromness Town Hall and the Cromarty Hall, Orkney, 13/14 March.

Crafted from the story of The Bacchae by Euripides – a tale which originally premiered in Athens in 405BC – Company of Wolves presents a fiery new physical re-telling of the ancient play. Set against a thrilling backdrop of neon lights and shiny supermarket cages, with a twisting and evocative soundscape, The Bacchae exposes Dionysus as a mind at war with itself.

Tickets and more information here:

Stromness Town Hall, Orkney – 13 March, 7:30pm

Cromarty Hall, Orkney – 14 March, 7:30pm

Written and performed by Ewan Downie (Julius Caesar, Achilles, Company of Wolves), directed by the late Ian Spink (The Vanishing Bridegroom, Scottish Opera; Petruska, Scottish Ballet), and including original songs by Ewan Downie and Anna Porubcansky, The Bacchae is an earth shattering tale of rejection, vengeance and rebirth, woven together through storytelling, dance and ancient song. Five mythological characters are embodied by Ewan: the god Dionysus, his father Zeus and mother Semele, her sister Agave, and Agave’s son Pentheus, King of Thebes.

Anna Porubcansky & Ewan Downie, Co-Artistic Directors of Company of Wolves, said:

“After the amazing responses from audiences during our Fringe run, it was so clear to us that this show needs to be seen far and wide. This tour is what we’re all about — bringing exceptional work to audiences and communities across the length and breadth of Scotland. We can’t wait to share it with you.” 

The Bacchae blurs the lines between binaries: human and animal, male and female, victim and perpetrator. Offering a hymn of rebirth for our shattered selves, it takes us on a transformative journey from repression and denial to renewal and release.