Eurydice

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ATC, Drum Theatre Plymouth and the Young Vic presented the European premiere of

Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl

Eurydice is in love with Orpheus. Her dead father has advice for her wedding but his letters can't get through to the land of the living. At last one does. With her father’s words in her hand, she crashes down a flight of stairs and wakes in the underworld her memory wiped as clean as glass. How will she ever get home?

Alice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playfully heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption by the hugely celebrated Sarah Ruhl. This European premiere is created by the team behind the multi-award winning hit 'The Brothers Size'.

Direction Bijan Sheibani
Design Patrick Burnier
Lighting Mike Gunning
Composer and Sound Design Manuel Pinheiro Choreography Aline David

Sheibani's production is superb...spellbinding and hallucinatory. The Guardian (The Brothers Size)

The most moving exploration of the theme of loss that the American theater has produced. The New York Times (Eurydice)

Photographer credit: Robert Workman
Design credit: INTRO

Sarah Ruhl’s Plays include In the Next Room or the vibrator play (to be produced on Broadway this autumn), The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play, a cycle (Pen American award, The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for best new play); Melancholy Play; Demeter in the City (9 NAACP image award nominations), Eurydice; Orlando and Late: a cowboy song.

Her plays have been produced at Lincoln Center Theater, Goodman Theatre, Playwrights’ Horizons, Second Stage, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Cornerstone Theater, The Wilma Theater, Madison Repertory Theater, and the Piven Theatre, among others.

Her plays have also been produced internationally, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean, German and Arabic.

Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She is a recent recipient of the PEN center award for a mid-career playwright.