Time Change for Greenhill Theater Company Production

4/26/2016

Due to the potential of bad weather, tonight's performance of Eurydice will be moved to 4:30 p.m. with doors opening at 4:15 p.m. in the Studio Theater.

A second show has been added for Wednesday (Apr. 27) at 7:00 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. for students, friends and families. Admission is free, but there are only 120 unreserved seats in the theater that are expected to be filled quickly.

Below are details of the performance:

Greenhill Theater Company Presents: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Produced and Directed by the Greenhill Theater Company
Tuesday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m. and Wednesday, April 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
Location: MPAC Studio Theater

Eurydice is a 2003 play by Sarah Ruhl which retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife. 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). Ruhl made several changes to the original myth's story-line. The most noticeable of these changes was that in the myth Orpheus succumbs to his desires and looks back at Eurydice, while in Ruhl's version Eurydice calls out to Orpheus (causing him to look back) perhaps in part because of her fear of reentering the world of the living and perhaps as a result of her desire to remain in the land of the dead with her father. Ruhl's script has been explicitly written so as to be a playground for the designer of the sets.

This production is the culmination of the year-long Greenhill Theater Company class taught by Ms. Hopkins and Mr. Orman. These founding members have been acting, writing and designing (lighting, sound, sets, costume and marketing) all year in this conservatory-style class. Those members are: Raven Brietfeller, Evan O'Brien, Mose Kane, Jonah Goldberg, Lauren Stock, Erin McGuire, Sudeep Bhargava, Alex Gilmour, Jackson Carroll, Luke Wagner, Jose Torres, Ryan Pollack, Whitney Pettijohn, Megan Marshall, Rachel Poole, Alexandria Moore, Addie Gomez and Jack Chasanoff.

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