Eurydice

The Orpheus legend has inspired scores of artworks over the centuries: novels, plays and poems, operas, dances, paintings, sculpture and film. Usually these works have been all about Orpheus, the greatest musician and poet of ancient Greek myth. But playwright Sarah Ruhl has modernized the myth and placed Eurydice, Orpheus’ doomed wife, at its center. While the play explores the tremendous power of love and its fragility with a gripping emotional potency, it also has great wit and irony. New Yorker theatre critic John Lahr: “Ruhl’s theatre aspires to reclaim the audience’s atrophied imagination…[She] writes with space, sound, and image as well as words.…Ruhl’s goal is to make the audience live in the moment, to make the world unfamiliar in order to reanimate it.”