Be sure to comb his hair when its wet. Context: Eurydice has reconnected with her dead Father in the Underworld. A full list of Sarah Ruhl's plays. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play, the opera reimagines the familiar tale from Eurydice's point of view. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.If we were in a restaurant, sometimes I would get embarrassed because Orpheus looked sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I was thinking about you. The play consists of three movements, divided into numerous scenes: 7 in the first movement, 20 in the second movement, and 3 in the third movement. I want you to be happy. Orpheus makes a sweeping gesture with his arm, indicating the sky. This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. It is easy to imagine an elevator that transports people from the upper to the lower world, from life to death; likewise rain connects sky to earth. ORPHEUS: 1994. - The New York Times, "Exhilarating! Eurydice enters the underworld through an elevator, inside which it is raining. A Comic Impudence Softens a Tale of Loss", "Theater Review. A young man--Orpheus--and a young woman--Eurydice. In Movement Two, Eurydice meets her father in the underworld. 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. Eurydice's father cannot attend their wedding, as he has already died and gone to the underworld. character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! The Nasty Interesting Man lures her to his penthouse and attempts to seduce her. Show:EurydicePlaywright: Sarah RuhlStyle: ContemporaryGenre:DramedyLength:1-2 minutes, Character: EurydiceGender: FemaleAge: Teenager/Young Adult, Scene: Second Movement, Scene 16Setting:The String Room in the Underworld. Since he knows Eurydice's relationship to him, he cares for her. Eurydice is an opera composed by Matthew Aucoin with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl based on her 2003 play of the same name, a retelling of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.It had its premiere at the Los Angeles Opera on February 1, 2020, with Aucoin conducting. ORPHEUS: I do think up my own thoughts. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. He is happy when he sees Eurydice. Eurydice- Sarah Ruhl Background: Eurydice is saying her final goodbye to Orpheus before she forgets him in the Underworld. Since her death, the bereft Orpheus has been trying in vain to reach her; he sends five letters and even attempts a phone call. More Invisible Terrains: Sarah Ruhl, Interviewed by Wendy Weckwerth, Theater 34.2: 28-35. . He orders her to be his bride. London, England, Sound No. He demands his wife, and the Lord of the Underworld states the condition of her return: Start walking home. He dismantles the room of stringthe space made of tension and void in which he could communicate with his daughter. Ellen Bauerle is executive editor and senior acquisitions editor for Classics and Archaeology, African Studies, Medieval Studies, and Early Modern History at the University of Michigan Press. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. I understand hes a musician. . She agrees to come with him to his apartment and get the letter. Orpheus sends another letter, and then resolves to go to the underworld himself to find her. Musician marries the love of his life; on their wedding day, she dies. 3. The story focuses on Eurydice's choice to return to earth with Orpheus or to stay in the underworld with her father (a character created by Ruhl). New York, NY 10107-0102, "Rhapsodically beautiful. EURYDICE: If I were to give a speech at your wedding I would start with one or two funny jokes and then I might offer some words of advice. I dont know what came over me. He has also retained all of his memories. ORPHEUS: As Eurydice mourns her father, the lord of the underworld returns, having grown from a child to superhuman height. Eurydice arrives in the Underworld in the raining elevator. Sarah Ruhl: THE CLEAN HOUSE. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists, In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play - Play. Uncomfortable, Eurydice leaves. The narrative conceit of her amnesia powerfully intersects with the commentary on the inability of language to do anything. Her father and she slowly rebuild their former emotional bond, sharing unconventional definitions for words. - San Francisco Chronicle, RELATED ARTICLES ON BREAKING CHARACTEREnglish and American Sign Language Share the Stage in Production of Eurydice, An Ode to Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICEby Andrew RejanOctober 18, 2016. He flirts with her. Because Eurydice loved to read, Orpheus sends her the Collected Works of Shakespeare, but she only shouts at the book, What do you do? Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. He finds Eurydice's letter. After she has left, The Nasty Interesting Man sees the letter her father sent. I want you to marry again. The elevator is dark inside, but back-lit so as to bring the rain into full relief. Full of dark humor, lyrical beauty, and wit, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice transforms a traditional myth into a visceral, contemporary meditation on love worth grieving for. LANE: Okay! If Orpheus walks out of the underworld, says The Lord of the Underworld, Eurydice will follow him. But he is always going away from you. It just--is. Posted on 12 September 2017 at 11:13 (5 years ago). Volume 1 includes such titles and authors as: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, The Receptionist by Adam Bock, In the Continuum by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, Bach at Leipzig by Itamar Moses, and many more. Mything Persons, The Village Voice, June 19, 2007. http://tinyurl.com/pxhow7o, accessed July 24, 2015 Show me your body, he said. ORPHEUS: The second and the third take place only in the underworld. Samuel French, 2008. She deliberately causes him to turn around so she can return to the underworld and be with her father. "Awash in a young writer's bracing, lucid 'Eurydice'", Review: 2004 production at Berkeley Repertory Theater, "Theater Review. Such is the time-traveling magic of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, which reimagines the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of its heroine. The playwright of Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl, takes a different perspective, writing the myth from Eurydice's point of view. Eurydice - Play. World Premiere. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music. In Ruhl's adaptation, Eurydice (Kayla Carter) is tricked into dying by a Nasty, Interesting Man (Michael Manocchio) on the night of her wedding to musical Orpheus (Topher Embrey). I want you to be happy. EURYDICE: InEurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. The second and the third take place only in the underworld. help you understand the book. This juxtaposition surely drives the artistic momentum of the play, but it also makes heavy demands on the audience. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects . By Sarah Ruhl. Victoria Pagn, Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, is a Research Foundation Professor for 20142016 and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year for 2010. He cannot read it. Thus, even the theme is the same: the fallibility of the human condition and the inability of art to triumph over the persistence of suffering and the finality of death. Wrote her first play, The Dog Play, in Paula Vogel's class. Orpheus also sends her a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare by attaching it to a piece of string, and Eurydice's father reads to her from King Lear. He will grow smaller and fit inside the straw. They make a quarter turn and he makes a sweeping gesture. Court the companionship and respect of dogs. Emily Grim finds the sweetness and sorrow in Eurydice, a young woman led astray by her innocence and cruelly doomed to forget the essence of her being. FEMALE MONOLOGUES 1. The play opens with Orpheus and Eurydice at the beach. Image: 2007 Second Stage Theater Production (Joan Marcus), Rhapsodically beautiful. Words can mean anything. a water-pump, Although Ruhl preserves from the ancient myth the characters, setting, marriage, death, retrieval, and fatal retrospection, she does not include Orpheus songs of mourning and his subsequent dismemberment at the hands of the Thracian maidens. -. The Father, dressed in a grey suit, reads from a letter. Yannick Nzet-Sguin oversees the December 4 transmission, leading Aucoin's evocative music and an immersive new staging by Mary Zimmerman. But he is always going away from you. Show me your body, he said. Eurydice. Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin's "Eurydice" aims to break down this Orphean monopoly on the story and explore it from the opposing viewpoint of his dead wife. Your hair will be my orchestra and--I love you. She wants to speak but when she opens her mouth, only white noise comes out. 1995. The Chorus of Stones in unison explain that Eurydice wants to speak to you. They wear swimming outfits from the 1950s. It involved hats.This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. As you walk, keep your eyes facing front. The elevator is only big enough for one person, but because the rest of the theater is dry, it seems to contain a whole world of its own. To my mind, the success of this play lies in the way it attracts and repels audiences by professing its own pretensions. My favorable attitude toward the play is betrayed by the hold it has had on my imagination since 2009. Maybe you should make up your own thoughts. EURYDICE: Show me your body, he said. Add to basket. The Clean House and Other Plays. The Nasty Interesting Man makes a sexual advance on Eurydice while she is in his apartment. This will help you to better understand the character, his or her situation, the intended audience reaction, and the context for the piece. by Sarah Ruhl. I'm going to make each strand of your hair into an instrument. some rusty exposed pipes, ORPHEUS: Age Range: 20's. Summary: 'In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)' is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Opera; libretto; Associated Music Publishers Inc; musicsalesclassical.com; 59969 Together, they read a book Orpheus sent. x]rG}W FFr^6zFMH"E@b>qdnDlu]^_yQz}7)glr^,y_WejU+#?^.mZEqe~^EY\[t'EYoI1I1tA%J[D..|;}})78WN-W0}g|~'}z_ZUxa/aTI .>;Xg4Goqs$E\`2vC&UmB`8w6nc"v6qL5g~! |?V`Bpw]G#z]mT *Ps7LppA AZXn:FC[KON1bQ[fU#j_G/E=[Ch?"y He drops the letter, filled with platitudes for his daughter on her wedding day, into an imaginary mail slot. Eurydice Paperback - January 1, 2008. He had his music. Of course it is also possible that Eurydices intense injunction to Say something! can only be answered by a master like Shakespeare. American playwright Sarah Ruhl's version differs from the vast majority in that she tells the Orpheus story from the perspective of Eurydice - Orpheus' unfortunate wife. He tells The Lord of the Underworld he has come to lead his wife to the world above. / Finally, Orpheus too enters from the elevator, having truly died this time. This tool is unavailable at the moment. It can fit around anything. - Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice . Auditions On May 4th: please arrive in the lobby of Nichols Hall between 6-9:30pm. the land of the living, then the underworld, which should resemble the world of alice in wonderland more than it resembles hades. set sometime between the present and slightly before the present. Eurydice decides to go to his apartment to retrieve the letter, but as she leaves his apartment after resisting the man's attempts to seduce her, she trips and falls to her death on the stairs. A weird and wonderful new play - an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory." Eurydice does not want to marry The Lord of the Underworld. 2f, 5m. In Movement One, the reader or the audience see their engagement and their wedding, which is not mentioned in the myth. Eurydice's father, who takes her to meet Orpheus, gives the same warning to her. Character: Sister James. And music. Scripts and rental materials are not included in this estimate. Eurydice tries to reawaken her father by teaching him how to spell her name, but he is unconscious. EURYDICE: Unlike Eurydice in Movement One, he does not have an umbrella to shield him from the rain inside the elevator. Eurydice. Instead, Ruhl adds the Father, in a move that is intensely autobiographical. Eurydice returns hoping to be reunited with him, but the Stones cruelly declare, He cant hear you. While the father is away at work, the lord of the underworld enters as a child riding a tricycle and attempts to seduce Eurydice, but fails. EURYDICE: During the time she wrote the play, Ruhl was facing the death of her father. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of . She talks in the language of dead people now. Little Stone: Its a very quiet language Pretend that you understand her or shell be embarrassed. And Big Stone responds, Yespretend for a moment that you understand the language of stones (Ruhl 2006, 359-60). Sarah Ruhl list of famous monologues with associated characters and shows. I was working on a new philosophical system. Scripts and rental materials are not included in this estimate. Surely not--surely not the sky and the stars too. Instead of reading them in a book. [16], The play was presented in London at the Young Vic Theatre in May 2010, after a tour starting at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth, on February 25, 2010, and finally playing at the Young Vic's Maria Studio, starting in previews April 29. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> In silence the third scene passes. Using a pulley to hoist an umbrella with strings attached to the ribs, he creates a pyramid space made of tension and void in which they can at last communicate. Terribly lonely without his daughter, he decides to lose his memories instead of living with them. "Eurydice" by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Libby Stratton. Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice is divided into three movements (acts). With this line, the playwright nudges the audience to pretend for a moment. Eurydice - Play. It only means one thing.". This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed that they have the permission to share :NC#sWLZ1M,Z@P(uZxf+G?Q []$j"xTrC/o"+WVAd32(lNB$gT Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). ORPHEUS: Timeline for Sarah Ruhl. He grieves until he wills his way into the Underworld and is allowed to retrieve her on one condition, which he violates. The turning point for Ruhl came in 1997, at a production of "Passion Play," her first full-length work, which Vogel had arranged at Trinity Repertory Company, in . But I still love you, I think. As soon as Eurydice has fallen, Orpheus descends to the underworld a second time. Where are you going to get twelve instruments? She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. I was afraid. It can fit around anything. Sarah Ruhl was born on January 24, 1974 and was raised in Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago (AlShamma, Sarah Ruhl, A Critical Study of Plays, 9). The first takes place only in the world above. A Nasty Interesting Man/The Lord of the Underworld. The apartment is very high up. When she tries to descend his high staircase, she falls and descends into the underworld. Eurydice is in love with Orpheus. Start planning your production with a cost estimate you can save and share with your team. I always have string. 4 0 obj 2007. Do you still have my melody? Give him lots to eat. Character: Eurydice Gender: Female Age: Teenager/Young Adult. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Ruhl, Sarah. That's true. - Variety, "Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design, Eurydice reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride - and on her struggle with love beyond the grave as both wife and daughter." Eurydice is a 2003 play by Sarah Ruhl which retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife. Don't try to find me again. T$"*Km+.B)h)wAuj2$mr*1Ac@ze28qSMeBKwXd%U4wQ1}j#Sz,O^.6`V8BMq~q4 -LT09XR^-0(tM7^i5srgn3[%;G[tyQk0F1I}Q4:Fxp!M_:IRS7(6qCF Walking behind him, she speeds up and calls out his name. The play should be performed without an intermission. She may not be able to construct a play that conveys her every intentionespecially since the major premise is the incapacity of language. How can you think about music? Represented by: Bruce Ostler Bret Adams, Ltd. 448 West 44th St. New York, NY 10036 (212) 765-5030. Ching is wonderful with her sublime acting chops and successfully convincing as the . At the beginning of the second movement, there is no set change, but "the movement to the underworld is marked by the entrance of stones":[18] Little Stone, Big Stone, and Loud Stone, who serve as a chorus. It involved hats. Lahr, John. Mistaking him for a porter, she asks to be taken to a hotel room, but her Father explains there are no rooms because people do not sleep here. Sarah Ruhl. Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy If you are author or own the copyright of this book, please report to us by using this DMCA Maria Dizzia as a contemporary Eurydice who descends in an elevator to the underworld in Sarah Ruhl's new play, "Eurydice," which opened last night at the Second Stage Theater. Paperback 19.99. A Comic Impudence Softens a Tale of Loss, The New York Times, October 3, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/pffmqm4, accessed July 24, 2015 A Chorus of Stones: Big Stone Little Stone Loud Stone. Maybe you could also get me another ringa gold one--to put over the string one. Love, The Stones command that she keep walking, but she wants to go back to the Father. Eurydice . I would say: Monologue: "He's taken an interest. (Pause.) During the wedding, Eurydice goes outside to get a drink of water and she meets a man (the "Nasty Interesting Man") who tells her he has a letter from her father. He drops the letter as though into a mail-slot. Your hair will stand on end as it plays my music and become a hair orchestra. Sarah Ruhl has adapted her play "Eurydice" with composer Matthew Aucoin for a Los Angeles Opera production premiering Feb. 1. report form. Weckwerth, Wendy. I didn't know an argument should be interesting. When Ruhl was twenty years old, her father died of bone cancer. Type: Dramedy. She pinches the letter from his pocket but then falls to her death. In case I come upon a broken instrument. I write you letters. Will you remember my melody under the water? It will be imprinted on my heart like wax. The cost and license availability quoted are estimates only and may differ when you apply for a license. Dear Eurydice, New York, NY, Linda Ray 2006. EURYDICE: Dear Orpheus, I'm sorry. n &8,+6nn;L C4_[m9 7/&'Gm*:y^$~%9b6%p-gA{^K0[5EwbFFE ./_Vkt!_m%EAUho@|Nvw2 (aS^AIN']> N(y}y}sh%T%0E_W[c9T{{1rfBrUdyhM#F>^>wh5Ne4,E?vbir~ar4E-6d;L HR/HH3 ]`9nCXNo #. [15] It was also performed at elite summer camp Stagedoor Manor, Loch Sheldrake, New York, in July 2019. Eurydice is lost to death forever. With Eurydice, Ruhl focused on condensing her already lyrical language into a music-friendly length. Eurydice read like bundle of freely associating thoughts and tasted, on occasion, cloyingly maudlin. Still, the play is acclaimed as full of both woe and wonder, walking a tightrope between the mythic and the mundane (Lahr 2007). He had his music. Then she dips herself in the river. an abstracted River of Forgetfulness, The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. EURYDICE: Won't I fall down when the song ends? A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth, lush and limpid as a dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious." All included titles: From Up Here by Liz Flahive Collective Dating: Natural Dating by VB . And in doing so, the work asks questions about what Eurydice actually wants out of her life and afterlife. ORPHEUS: . The lord of the underworld tells him that he may take Eurydice back, but only if he does not turn around to look at her. Since Donald went on the altar boysThere was alcohol on his breath.". It was a series of monologues and choral chanting with yoga-base movement, and featured the usual cast of characters. "Good As . Say something! (Ruhl 2006, 376). So people want to stick around. As a result, Ruhl also adds a new character, Eurydice's father. This is only an estimate. How about that? Only the horizontal opening and closing of the doors signals the vertical ascent and descent. I do. The cast of Eurydice is small: Eurydice, Orpheus, A Nasty Interesting Man / The Lord of the Underworld (played by the same actor), and a Chorus of Stones named Big Stone, Little Stone, and Loud Stone. The play has been produced by hundreds of high schools and universities. Directed by Les Waters, Associate Artistic Director, the cast featured Maria Dizzia as Eurydice and Daniel Talbott as Orpheus. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! But only one thing at a time. In 2009, I saw it performed at the Hippodrome State Theater in Gainesville, Florida, under the direction of Lauren Caldwell. Isherwood, Charles. He wraps string deliberately around her fourth finger. He picks her up and throws her into the sky. Eurydice, named one of the 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by . He wrote that libretto; thanks to Ruhl's lucidity, "Eurydice," first heard in February 2020 at Los Angeles Opera, is a clearer, stronger work. The elevator in which it is raining is the plays signature feat of engineering (Figure 1). But she cant speak your language any more. Just kidding. Rooney, David. Suddenly, she recognizes her father too, and she embraces him. She earned her MFA at Brown University, where she drafted Eurydice in 2001; it premiered in Madison in 2003 and made its New York premiere off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in 2007. The play closes without memory, without language. Tilly's melancholy is of an exquisite quality. He makes a gesture of giving the sea to Eurydice. Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play "The Clean House," which has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and Woolly Mammoth . I haven't met Orpheus, but he seems like a serious young man. . Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. 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. A letter for you on your wedding day. She crawls on top of him and kisses his eyes. EURYDICE: Eurydice premiered in Los Angeles in February 2020 and at the Metropolitan Opera on November 23, 2021. I read a book today. In a modern retelling of the classical Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Bowdoin's Department of Theater and Dance will merge fantasy and innovative visuals this weekend in its production of "Eurydice.". She sings the melody. Frances, Tilly's hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. She escapes him, her letter in her hand. Scene: Second Movement, Scene 16 Setting: The String Room in the Underworld. Ruhl made several changes to the original myth's story-line. 2. . She admits that Eurydice is a transparently personal play. Scene two breaks the horizontal line of sight between Orpheus and Eurydice on the beach and the audience at sea; instead, the audience must look up to see the Father standing on a catwalk (figure 2). She earned her MFA at Brown University, where she drafted Eurydice in 2001; it premiered in Madison in 2003 and made its New York premiere off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in 2007. Rain inside an elevator is both impossible and improbable and therefore poetic. At last one does. The play begins with Eurydice and Orpheus, two young lovers, who are about to get married. Do you want more children, Elizabeth? Any suggestions? She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Hippodrome production of the play was quirky, no doubt: Eurydice wore legwarmers and the Lord of the Underworld, tricked out like Johnny Rotten (lead singer of the 1970s punk rock band the Sex Pistols), glided about on a Segway. It is hailed as the most moving exploration of the theme of loss that the American theater has produced since the events of September 11, 2001, by a critic who confessed he fought off tears for half the play, not always successfully (Isherwood 2006). ORPHEUS: 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.
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