Theater of the Oppressed

During harvest-time, farm workers would labour under strict
discipline, from dawn to dusk, for weeks and months on end.
First the grape harvest, then the winemaking. When it was over,
of course they would get drunk, sing, and dance in homage to
Dionysus, god of happiness, god of binges. Alcohol was essential,
not accidental: it was the touch-paper of freedom. The celebrations
of Greek farm labourers after harvest were just as spontaneous
as those of builders today when they fi nish a house. The songs
and dances came from the soul. It was creative anarchy – which
could also play havoc. Freedom needed to be kept within bounds.
There had to be limits. But can freedom in handcuffs be truly free?
The aristocracy thought it could. As

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