Hugh M Casey

This Friday, Younger Hall will play host for “Bacchanalia.” This is the first time the event will be held. I met with Helen Sanderson, one of the event organisers, to find out what the chat was. I have been promised all manner of things. Certainly, the formalities that are expected of Younger Hall will unravel with live music, frenzied shapes will be cut into Hades stern expression, and a cultural collage will paste over those dry inhibitions that hold one back.

An evening that proposes “drunken revelry and ritual madness” is not amiss in our small town. Yet, this Friday Bacchanalia makes such a promise and people have taken notice. Already over 200 tickets have been sold ,with the sound of a pixelated internet cash register ringing every few minutes. Aye, the student elections are going on: thrilling or bothersome whichever way you walk to the library. But for a while now, a gentler flame has borne light to the gaping throat yawning at the St Andrews social calibre. Eagerness and intuition have bloomed. Bacchanalia offers to be a colourful petal on a steadily engrossing flower.

The event will be hosted in Younger Hall. With all the exam and blood donation anxieties smoked into the walls, the frantic activities of Bacchanalia will surely mask those smells with a doctor’s beaked remedy. The event’s poster reveals little more than the names of musicians, performers, societies, and the name. Fair, then, to wonder how life drawing will accompany the same space as an a capella group or deep-house. Ken that way a house party swivels? One space gets crowded, stifled, you move into the kitchen or the back stoop.

A person’s freedom to move has been seriously challenged in past years. Bacchanalia offers an evening at least to remember. There’s going to be so much going on you won’t find yourself stood at the bar thinking that you could have stayed home. Bacchus is the god of wine, but you won’t need that stimulation to get through. Plus, the evening won’t be coiled by a python price tag helter-skelter around your throat. All things considered you don’t need to be seen there, but it would be nice to see you there.

Tickets can be purchased through FIXR. 

All tickets £15

(The event is strictly 18+. ID will be checked on collection.)

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