Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl

Off-Broadway
Eurydice Book Cover
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Highlights

90 mins Present Day Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Dramatic Comedy / 5m, 2f / Unit Set In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine.

Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love.

With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

"RHAPSODICALLY BEAUTIFUL.

A weird and wonderful new play - an inexpressibly

Press Reviews

"Exhilarating! A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth, lush and limpid as a dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious."

— The New Yorker

"Exquisitely staged by Les Waters and an inventive design team... Ruhl's wild flights of imagination, some deeply affecting passages and beautiful imagery provide transporting pleasures. They conspire to create original, at times breathtaking, stage pictures."

— Variety

"Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design, Eurydice reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride - and on her struggle with love beyond the grave as both wife and daughter."

— San Francisco Chronicle

"A weird and wonderful new play – an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory."

— The New York Times

Characters

Character
Her Father
Orpheus
A Nasty Interesting Man
Big Stone
Little Stone
Loud Stone
Eurydice

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Second Stage Presents: Eurydice

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2008
Binding Paperback
Pages 74
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573662447
ISBN-10 0573662444
LCCN 2010279045
LCC MLCS 2010/41193 (P) PS3618.U48

Eurydice is a American comedy play written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Samuel French in New York (2008).

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