When the god of theatre toys with the lives of two struggling actors, the results are as sensual and tragic as theatre itself.
During a Manhattan blackout, Kristen meets an iconic playwright who prompts her to create a script for her life. In a fateful instant, orchestrated by the playwright, she falls in love with Broadway actor Taylor O’Neal.
Struggling to overcome his history as a drunk, Taylor lives a guarded life with his wife and daughter. Kristen allows Dionysus to influence her convictions. They create wicked schemes that rock Taylor's marriage and tear at his precarious sobriety. Only when she wins her game of seduction does Kristen discover the malevolent purposes of the god of wine.
As Kristen watches her lover relapse, she’s horrified that Taylor knows and loves Dionysus—loves the very thing that will destroy him. To thwart the inevitable, she embarks on one final scheme. But it will take more than a clever script to turn tragedy into triumph. As the curtain falls, Kristen fights for redemption—Taylor’s redemption, and her own.
Dionysus is a metaphorical tale of a potent and deadly ménage a trois—woman, man, and the god of wine.