Eurydice

by Sarah Ruhl Playwright

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573662447
Publisher:	Samuel French, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/28/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Sarah Ruhl’s fifteen plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists The Clean House and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), also nominated for a Tony Award. Her awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, and her book of essays 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Eurydice, named one of the 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by the New York Times, was developed into an opera with music by Matthew Aucoin, and performed at The Metropolitan Opera in 2021. Her most recent book, Smile: The Story of a Face, was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster. Ruhl teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Editorial Reviews

"Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design."

San Francisco Chronicle

"A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth... Watching it, we enter a singular, surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream—an anxiety dream of love and loss—where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious."

New Yorker

"Ruhl's wild flights of the imagination, some deeply affecting passages and beautiful imagery provide transporting pleasures."

Variety

As I watched the final minutes of the Yale Rep’s knockout production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, tears came with the suddenness of grief… The heroine’s arrival in Hades (by elevator, accompanied by a stunning surge of rain) is memorable for technical reasons, but it wouldn’t mean a thing without this playwright’s singular voice… While Eurydice is certainly a play for our fearful times, it is about every death, every loss, every paralyzing pang of grief… Sarah Ruhl has looked into the heart of darkness and found an awful beauty.

New York Times