Hamilton College students will present Eurydice, for the 2009 spring theater production. Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell, Eurydice will run Thursday – Saturday, April 16 -18, and Wednesday – Saturday, April 22-25, at 8 p.m. in Minor Theater. There is an additional matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Seating is limited and reservations are suggested. Call the Theatre and Dance office at 859-4057 for tickets or more information.
With contemporary characters and ingenious plot twists, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. The cast includes Chelsea D'Aprile '09 as Eurydice, Sam Bristol '11 as Orpheus, and Nick Fesette '09 as Father. Winston Cook-Wilson '09 provides an original soundtrack.
In Eurydice, playwright Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Ruhl has an uncanny facility for revealing the invisible, the hidden myths within and around us and her play Eurydice offers fresh revelations on a timeless Greek myth. Over the past 2500 years the majority of the artistic responses to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice have focused on Orpheus and his legendary ability to charm and stir both mortals and Gods with his preternatural music. Ruhl, however, has always been more drawn to the tale of Eurydice, who on her wedding day is bitten by a snake, dies and descends into Hades, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love.
Sarah Ruhl is among the most acclaimed and accomplished young playwrights on the contemporary scene. She is a recent winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant, and her plays have been translated into German, Polish, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and have been produced internationally in London, Canada, Germany, Latvia and Poland. Ruhl received her MFA from Brown University.
The New York Times calls Eurydice "Rhapsodically beautiful. A weird and wonderful new play—an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory."
With contemporary characters and ingenious plot twists, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. The cast includes Chelsea D'Aprile '09 as Eurydice, Sam Bristol '11 as Orpheus, and Nick Fesette '09 as Father. Winston Cook-Wilson '09 provides an original soundtrack.
In Eurydice, playwright Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Ruhl has an uncanny facility for revealing the invisible, the hidden myths within and around us and her play Eurydice offers fresh revelations on a timeless Greek myth. Over the past 2500 years the majority of the artistic responses to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice have focused on Orpheus and his legendary ability to charm and stir both mortals and Gods with his preternatural music. Ruhl, however, has always been more drawn to the tale of Eurydice, who on her wedding day is bitten by a snake, dies and descends into Hades, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love.
Sarah Ruhl is among the most acclaimed and accomplished young playwrights on the contemporary scene. She is a recent winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant, and her plays have been translated into German, Polish, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and have been produced internationally in London, Canada, Germany, Latvia and Poland. Ruhl received her MFA from Brown University.
The New York Times calls Eurydice "Rhapsodically beautiful. A weird and wonderful new play—an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory."
