KU Theatre

Eurydice

by Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Chandra O. Hopkins
Scenic and Lighting Design by Liz Banks
Costume Design by Melanie McCoy

Assistant Director: Ryan Klamen
Stage Manager: Rachel Gadd-Nelson

According to the classic Greek myth, on the day Eurydice is to marry her true love, Orpheus, a tragic misstep sends her plummeting to the surreal depths of the Underworld. Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary play, retold from Eurydice’s point of view, abounds with surprising plot twists, quirky humor, lyrical writing, and poetic imagery as it explores the age-old theme of love and loss. Eurydice's painful choice of whether to return to earth with Orpheus or to stay in Hades, where she has been reunited with her dead father, drives this award-winning play to an original look at what it means to be alive and, as we love and lose those closest to us, find ways to inhabit the living world, a world of loss, but also of great hope.

 

Character

Cast Member

Loud Stone 

Amy Virginia Buchanan
Big Stone  Alyson Cripps

Lord of the Underworld/
Nasty Interesting Man 

Spencer Holdren
Little Stone

Jacquelyn Koester

Orpheus Spencer Sassaman Lott
Father Chris McGillivray
Eurydice Mackenzie Wiglesworth

 

Ticket Prices

  • Public: $12
  • Senior Citizens & KU Faculty/Staff: $11
  • All Students: $10
  • February 9, 2009 - 7:30 p.m. - Inge Theatre
  • February 10, 2009 - 7:30 p.m. - Inge Theatre
  • February 11, 2009 - 7:30 p.m. - Inge Theatre
  • February 13, 2009 - 7:30 p.m. - Inge Theatre
  • February 14, 2009 - 5:00 p.m. - Inge Theatre
  • February 15, 2009 - 2:30 p.m. - Inge Theatre
  • February 16, 2009 - 7:30 p.m. - Inge Theatre