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''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. ==Productions== The play had its world premiere at Madison Repertory Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin, on September 2003.〔(eurydice ) madstage.com, accessed July 14, 2009〕〔Lachmond, Hatley. ("‘Eurydice’ kicks off Madison Rep season right" ) badgerherald.com, September 24, 2003〕 The play next was produced at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California, in October to November 14, 2004. Directed by Les Waters, Associate Artistic Director, the cast featured Maria Dizzia as Eurydice and Daniel Talbott as Orpheus.〔Hurwitt, Robert. ("Awash in a young writer's bracing, lucid 'Eurydice'" ) sfgate.com, October 22, 2004〕 〔(Review: 2004 production at Berkeley Repertory Theater ) culturevulture.net〕 It next was presented at Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven Connecticut, in September 2006 to October 14, directed by Les Waters, with Maria Dizzia (Eurydice) and Joseph Parks (Orpheus).〔Isherwood, Charles. ("Theater Review. A Comic Impudence Softens a Tale of Loss" ) ''New York Times'', October 3, 2006〕 The play opened Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, running from June 18 to August 26, 2007.〔Hernandez, Ernio. ("Sarah Ruhl's 'Eurydice' Opens Off-Broadway June 18," ) playbill.com, June 18, 2007〕 Directed by Les Waters, the cast featured Maria Dizzia as Eurydice, Joseph Parks as Orpheus, and Charles Shaw Robinson as Eurydice's Father. The play received several award nominations, including the 2008 Drama League Award, Distinguished Production of a Play and the 2008 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Set Design of a Play, (Scott Bradley).〔("Eurydice'' ) lortel.org, accessed December 1, 2015〕 Charles Isherwood, reviewing for ''The New York Times'', called it a "weird and wonderful new play."〔Isherwood, Charles. ("Theater Review. The Power of Memory to Triumph Over Death" ) ''New York Times'', June 19, 2007〕 ;Regional US productions It has been staged at : Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, March–April 2008;〔Hetrick, Adam. ("Ruhl's Eurydice Descends Upon Atlanta's Alliance March 14," ) playbill.com, March 14, 2008〕 the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, May 2008 (with original live music by Toby Twining;〔("Barrymore Winners in Philly" ) playbill.com, October 6, 2008〕) ACT Theatre in Seattle, September–October 2008;〔Hetrick, Adam. ("'Eurydice' to Descend at Seattle's A.C.T. Beginning Sept. 5" ) playbill.com, August 27, 2008〕 in Theatre Ink's 2010-2011 season; by the Custom Made Theatre Co. in San Francisco in 2013; and at the Douglas Morrisson Theatre, Hayward, California in May/June 2013.〔()〕 ;London The play was presented in London at the Young Vic Theatre in May 2010, after a tour starting in Plymouth at the Drum Theatre on February 25, 2010 and finally playing at the Young Vic's Maria Studio, starting in previews April 29. The play was directed by Bijan Sheibani with the cast that featured Osi Okerafor and Ony Uhiara.〔Stenton, Mark. ("London's Young Vic to Stage Kursk, Ruhl's Eurydice and Keeffe's Sus" ) playbill.com, January 12, 2010〕 ;School productions The play has been produced by schools and universities: the Little Theater of the University of California, Irvine, as an honors workshop by an undergraduate director, in November 2011; the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in April, 2011; Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012; the University of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre in 2012; Ouachita Baptist University's Verser Theatre in 2012; Canyon Crest Academy Envision Theatre in March/April, 2013; the University of Southern Mississippi by graduate director Kristopher Kuss in April 2013; the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013; the Whitney Theater at Yale University in October/November 2014;〔bpotracking.com/eurydice2014〕 and the University of Michigan-Flint in January/February 2015 directed by Professor Janet Haley. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eurydice (Ruhl play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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