FRIDAY JUNE 14 8PM

POWERHOUSE THEATRE IN WAVENY PARK

TICKETS $30

Eurydice (pronounced yr·i·duh·see), by the acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl, is a mesmerizing reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Eurydice dies on her wedding day and travels to the underworld, she is transported to a place where stones speak, the rain falls upward, and her father must become her teacher. While she struggles to remember her life on Earth, Orpheus – the great musician – sets out to rescue her. But the choice of whether to return to the land of the living or to stay with her father in the afterlife is not an easy one.

This contemporary play is an invitation to audiences to journey into the dreamlike underworld together, where the fault lines between memory and reality, love and loss blur into a lyrical experience of what it means to remember. Dedicated by Ruhl to her father after his death,

Eurydice poetically explores the human longing for connection.

Eurydice opened Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theater in 2007. The play received several awards and nominations, including the 2004 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award. In 2018, the New York Times counted it amongst the “25 Best American Plays since Angels in America.”

“RHAPSODICALLY BEAUTIFUL. 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

"Perhaps more than anything else, the eerie wonderland of “Eurydice” evokes the discombobulating experience of grief and loss, the desperate need to move on and the overwhelming desire never to let go — to turn and look back just one more time." - New York Times

Optional dinner @ 6:00PM (place to be determined)

Any questions, contact Barbara McKay.