Eurydice
Director
Director’s Note
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a timeless tragic love story that invites us to a collective processing of love and loss. Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice has followed me throughout my life in the theater, a tumultuous relationship of almosts and could have beens. I have always admired the way Ruhl blends the largeness of this myth with the simplicity of human life, it becomes like a myth through little human moments. This play tells the story through Eurydice’s perspective and expands on the well-known myth with themes of how we navigate love and loss with connection, language, and memory. The entire piece is scored with various soundscapes and brilliant pieces of music that draw us into a mythic world of endless possibilities where our story takes place. The show posed to me two questions: how can we cope with something we have lost as it fades from our memory? And how can you return to that lost love when you have found comfort in the loss of it? I invite you to join these characters in this brave leap into the unknown with unbridled hope for a better tomorrow.
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Produced bt MSU’s F.A.S.T.
