Orpheus Dismembered by Ben Haggarty and Jonah Brody

Name: Orpheus Dismembered by Ben Haggarty and Jonah Brody
Start: 2026-02-25T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-25T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Theatre Royal Bath

Schedule

Wed Feb 25 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Theatre Royal Bath | Bath, EN

No remembering without forgetting...
No rebirth without death...
No ascent without descent...
These are the mysteries.
Storyteller Ben Haggarty, and musician Jonah Brody, become guides to the dark places. Enter a subterranean dreamscape to meet Dionysus - God of Wine, born once from his mother and again from Zeus; Orpheus who can only find love through separation; Eurydice and Persephone eternally bound to the land of the dead; and Aphrodite scattering seeds of chaos, through which we must wade to find sense.
Ben Haggarty reads between the lines of Greek Mythology to restore them to their terrifying and truly awesome glory. This is world-class storytelling - dark, magical and provocative. Whatever you do - don't look back...
'BLOODY BRILLIANT' Time Out
'A TOUR-DE-FORCE OF STORYTELLING ★ ★ ★ ★ Remote Goat
'STORYTELLING GENIUS' Brighton Fringe
TICKETS: £21 / £13 (concessions)
SUITABLE FOR: adults (16+)
RUNNING TIME: 100 mins + 20 mins interval
STARTS: 7.30pm
BOOK NOW: https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/events/orpheus-dismembered/
Content/trigger warning: Please be advised that this performance is based on raw Greek mythology and includes moments of violence, incest, rape, dismemberment, infanticide, alcoholic intoxication, cannibalism and death, alongside moments of beauty, magic, wonder, transformation and life.