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EURYDICE Plays Different Stages Thru 1/30

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Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with Sarah Ruhl's dramatic comedy EURYDICE.

Performances are set to take place January 8th through the 30th. EURYDICE will play at 8pm on Thursday through Saturday and 2pm on Sundays. Tickets are Pick your Price at $15, $20, $25, and $30.

Experience the fantastic and hallucinatory myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine, Eurydice. Eurydice journeys through the jaws of death into the Underworld where she happily reunites with her father who teaches her about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory. There, washed in the river of forgetfulness, she struggles to remember her lost love. When Orpheus returns to rescue her, she must decide whether to stay with her beloved father or return to the land of the living. Things become more complicated when the malevolent Lord of the Underworld wants Eurydice for his bride, and a chorus of stones try to coerce her into conforming to the rigid rules of the Underworld. With humor, contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

Directed by Karen Jambon (Miss Witherspoon) EURYDICE features Nicole Swahn (An Inspector Calls) as the title character. Bastion Carboni (Poison Apple Initiative) plays the musician Orpheus. Norman Blumensaadt (A Number) is Eurydice'ss father, and Marc Balester (A Number) is the Lord of the Underworld. Betsy McCann (Oceana), Jonathan Blackwell (Oceana), and Miriam Rubin (The Shadow Box) are the chorus of stones.

For tickets and information call 474-8497 or www.main.org/diffstages.

 

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