ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES

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Mask of Dionysos

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it’s a shame this isn’t tagged or credited.

the mask is from the 1984 production of “The Bacchae” by Euripides at the Valencia Rose Cabaret in San Francisco. queer witch and co-founder of the Radical Faeries Arthur Evans directed his own translation of the play for the production, which featured a queer cast and played for a primarily queer audience. Pentheus’s drag look at the end of the play was based on then-mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein.

you can find the full translation, as well as more photos of the production, in the appendix of Evans’s 1988 book “The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysos.“ it is available on loan for free from archive.org.

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