Presented by Gaby Ford and The English Theatre of Rome | Directed by Carl Granieri | A Roman premiere at Teatro Arciliuto
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Featuring Lidia Fili Aicardi, James Blundell, Nicoletta Brunelli, Alessandra Gage, Paul Guerin, Duné Medros, and Dayane Mounsib
Directed by Carl Granieri; Produced by Gaby Ford; through arrangement with Concord Theatricals
In her celebrated adaptation, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the Orpheus legend, not through her husband's famous pilgrimage to the Underworld, but through the eyes of its heroine, Eurydice; named "One of the 25 Best American Plays of the Last 25 Years" by the New York Times in 2018!
-"Sara Ruhl is the most distinctive voice to emerge on the American theater scene since the 1990s. In 'Eurydice,' a riff upon the potent Greek myth of Orpheus, she’s in peak form." -- The San Diego Union Tribune, 2010
-"Exhilarating! 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." -- The New Yorker, 2008
-"['Eurydice'] just may be the most moving exploration of the theme of loss that the American theater has produced since the events of September 11. -- New York Times, 2006
Dates:
Sunday April 30 at 8:00p
Thursday May 4 at 8:00p
Friday May 5 at 8:00p
Saturday May 6 at 5:00p (matinee only)
Sunday May 7 at 8:00p
Thursday May 11 at 8:00p
Friday May 12 at 8:00p
Saturday May 13 at 5:00p (matinee only)
Sunday May 14 at 8:00p
Tickets:
General Admission (walk-up) €17.00
General Admission (online) €15.00
Students and Seniors €12.00 Group Rates (12+)
You can buy tickets on the site:
https://www.rometheatre.org/
https://www.eventbrite.it/e/eurydice-by-sarah-ruhl-tickets-574407898487
Teatro Arciliuto
(zona via de’ Coronari - Chiostro del Bramante - Via della Pace)
tel. 06 687 9419 - mobile 333 856 8464 - www.arciliuto.it -
About the author
"[T]he belated discovery of Sarah Ruhl on New York stages continues apace with 'Eurydice'. Ruhl's wild flights of the imagination, some deeply affecting passages and beautiful imagery provide transporting pleasures." -- Variety, 2007
"Ms. Ruhl’s theatrical vision is an idiosyncratic one... an adventurer who is not afraid to blend the quotidian and the fantastic, deep feeling and airy whimsy. " -- The New York Times, 2007
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)," "The Clean House," and "Eurydice." She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur Genius Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, across the United States, internationally, and have been translated into many languages. She has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award, the Feminist Press Under 40 Award, the National Theater Conference Person of the Year Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lily Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for mid-career playwrights.
About the play
On the day of her wedding, Eurydice falls victim to a tragic accident. Ripped from her beloved Orpheus, the greatest musician alive, she is sent hurtling into a dreamlike underworld where she reunites with her dead father. Orpheus journeys to retrieve her, but Eurydice begins to discover that the price of living again can sometimes exceed the cost of staying dead. Full of dark humor, lyrical beauty, and unexpected twists, Ruhl’s contemporary take on Greek myth transforms the tale into a visceral meditation on a love worth grieving for.