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Celebration Theatre's THE BACCHAE is a radical re-imagining of Euripides' tragedy incorporating original music and dance. Whereas in the original play, the women of Thebes are driven mad and made into all-powerful, voraciously sexual beings, enraptured by the God Dionysus, in this version it is the men who are entranced. In representing the Bacchae as gorgeous, leather-clad, shirtless "West Hollywood" club kids, the play explores modern images of gay sexuality, examining the consequences of a marginalization of what it means to be gay outside of a sexual context, using the mythology of the Bacchae to represent this marginalization as stemming from a societal and governmental denial of the homosexual as a whole person.