One of America’s top new playwrights, Sarah Ruhl, has enjoyed recent wildfire-like success around the nation. For the first time ever, the 2005 Pulitzer finalist’s evocative work will be produced professionally in Baltimore.
Single Carrot Theatre will open its 2009/2010 season with Ruhl’s Eurydice, a vibrant new take on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (pronounced yoo-RID-uh-see). Ruhl’s version tells the familiar love story from the perspective of Eurydice, whose wedding to Orpheus is marred by her sudden death. Upon her death, Eurydice is taken to the Underworld, a fantastical realm where stones can speak and worms carry messages through the earth. “The land of the dead,” says director J. Buck Jabaily, “is not Dante's Inferno, but more like Alice in Wonderland.” As in most variations of the myth, Orpheus descends into the Underworld to retrieve his love, where he is posed with the challenge of retreating back to Earth without looking back at his wife, lest he lose her forever.Photos courtesy of Single Carrot Theatre
Giti Jabaily and Brendan Ragan
Giti Jabaily, Chris Ashworth, Richard Goldberg, Natalie Ware
Kaveh Haerian and Giti Jabaily
Richard Goldberg, Giti Jabaily, Chris Ashworth and Natalie Ware
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