But I still love you, I think. % Don't try to find me again. Her awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, and her book of essays 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Alice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playful, heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption. T$"*Km+.B)h)wAuj2$mr*1Ac@ze28qSMeBKwXd%U4wQ1}j#Sz,O^.6`V8BMq~q4 -LT09XR^-0(tM7^i5srgn3[%;G[tyQk0F1I}Q4:Fxp!M_:IRS7(6qCF Communication is thus vertical and unidirectional. Like a room of string, drawn and tense, pretense will collapse upon exposure. I'm 21 years old, blond hair, blue eyes (you could say I am the girl next door type) I want to find some new material that is not overly used in the audition room. He picks it up. I would say: . The play closes without memory, without language. Equity/professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly at [emailprotected] to inquire about a title's availability. EURYDICE: Dear Orpheus, I'm sorry. :NC#sWLZ1M,Z@P(uZxf+G?Q []$j"xTrC/o"+WVAd32(lNB$gT My favorable attitude toward the play is betrayed by the hold it has had on my imagination since 2009. That will do, Eurydice says as if to a stranger. She's not the best singer in the world. Character: Eurydice Gender: Female Age: Teenager/Young Adult. Add to basket. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City plays host to a new iteration: Eurydice, based on a 2003 play by Sarah Ruhl. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of . I mean--Yes. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. When she tries to descend his high staircase, she falls and descends into the underworld. Just: Yes. Context:Eurydice has reconnected with her dead Father in the Underworld. by Sarah Ruhl. There is one condition: If he turns to look at her, they will be separated forever. Eurydice. Sarah Ruhl (1974), born in Wilmette, Illinois, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 and a MacArthur Foundation fellow in 2006. If you are author or own the copyright of this book, please report to us by using this DMCA Female monologues from published plays? If Orpheus walks out of the underworld, says The Lord of the Underworld, Eurydice will follow him. Whatever makes you happy. How about that? In addition to the five Shakespeare titles "As You Like It," "Hamlet," "Measure for Measure," "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Coriolanus" ASC will also stage Sarah Ruhl's ethereal comedy "Eurydice," Lauren Gunderson's witty and moving recounting of the creation of the First Folio, "The Book of Will" and the holiday favorite, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." "Eurydice" by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Libby Stratton. sarah ruhl, Eurydice. Scripts and rental materials are not included in this estimate. It is easy to imagine an elevator that transports people from the upper to the lower world, from life to death; likewise rain connects sky to earth. Once there, he will sing a note so powerful, it will open the gate to the underworld. EURYDICE: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl. By Sarah Ruhl. To my mind, the success of this play lies in the way it attracts and repels audiences by professing its own pretensions. I love how you love books. The play was adapted by Ruhl for the libretto of an opera by the same name, with music composed by Matthew Aucoin, and directed by Mary Zimmerman. The play was directed by Bijan Sheibani with the cast that featured Osi Okerafor and Ony Uhiara.[17]. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Ruhl, Sarah. They wear swimming outfits from the 1950s. Concord Theatricals Directed by Les Waters, Associate Artistic Director, the cast featured Maria Dizzia as Eurydice and Daniel Talbott as Orpheus. Sarah Ruhl's 2003 . I was afraid. ORPHEUS: If the Lord of the Underworld finds out, he will be dipped again. I don't know if I want to be an instrument. straight line as though he is walking his daughter down the aisle. In Movement One, the reader or the audience see their engagement and their wedding, which is not mentioned in the myth. Im not worthy of you. x]rG}W FFr^6zFMH"E@b>qdnDlu]^_yQz}7)glr^,y_WejU+#?^.mZEqe~^EY\[t'EYoI1I1tA%J[D..|;}})78WN-W0}g|~'}z_ZUxa/aTI .>;Xg4Goqs$E\`2vC&UmB`8w6nc"v6qL5g~! |?V`Bpw]G#z]mT *Ps7LppA AZXn:FC[KON1bQ[fU#j_G/E=[Ch?"y Auditions On May 4th: please arrive in the lobby of Nichols Hall between 6-9:30pm. Eurydice's father, who takes her to meet Orpheus, gives the same warning to her. Emily Grim finds the sweetness and sorrow in Eurydice, a young woman led astray by her innocence and cruelly doomed to forget the essence of her being. Community. Dear Eurydice, When hes sad, kiss his forehead and I will thank you. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh . She may not be able to construct a play that conveys her every intentionespecially since the major premise is the incapacity of language. A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth, lush and limpid as a dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious." I wasnt thinking. - Variety, "Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design, Eurydice reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride - and on her struggle with love beyond the grave as both wife and daughter." We recommend finding your monologues in published plays and reading the whole play before performing your monologue. I want you to marry again. Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. Yannick Nzet-Sguin oversees the December 4 transmission, leading Aucoin's evocative music and an immersive new staging by Mary Zimmerman. The Stones try unsuccessfully to stop them, because the dead are not allowed to remember their past or speak in human language. The first takes place only in the world above. I was working on a new philosophical system. DV+Po^Vp4*ogonY::]`(. Ive always hated you! Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. But as she catches up to him, she calls out his name, and he turns to look at her, causing her to die a second death. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she . England, England, Jersey Boys (Sound) . His breath will propel him, and he will be swept to the underworld. Eurydice. Because he is a young prince and his robes are too heavy on him. Its tension and void will collapse with the revelation that even the gift of speech and song is a prison house. I have eleven other ones in my head, making for a total of twelve. He looks at his imaginary daughter; he looks straight ahead; he acknowledges the guests at the wedding; he gets choked up; he looks at his daughter and smiles an embarrassed smile for getting choked up. Because Eurydice loved to read, Orpheus sends her the Collected Works of Shakespeare, but she only shouts at the book, What do you do? Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. 2007. Say something! (Ruhl 2006, 376). Show me your body, he said. EURYDICE: While she is at her wedding, getting a drink of water from a water pump, Eurydice meets The Nasty Interesting Man. For Ruhl, in the theater space must yield to imagination, not, as in film, the other way around. EURYDICE: Now . ORPHEUS: Don't try to find me again. 1995. She sings the melody. You know? She earned her MFA at Brown University, where she drafted Eurydice in 2001; it premiered in Madison in 2003 and made its New York premiere off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in 2007. While the father is away at work, the lord of the underworld enters as a child riding a tricycle and attempts to seduce Eurydice, but fails. The Chorus of Stones in unison explain that Eurydice wants to speak to you. Unlike Eurydice in Movement One, he does not have an umbrella to shield him from the rain inside the elevator. Samuel French, 2008. Take a look below at how you can enhance your show! But I still love you, I think. A monologue from Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice "Dear Orpheus," Monologue: "He's taken an interest. Eurydice is lost to death forever. A Chorus of Stones: Big Stone Little Stone Loud Stone. 3,474 ratings248 reviews. Orpheus journeys to retrieve his bride, but Eurydice has begun to discover that the cost of living again can sometimes exceed the cost of staying dead. Eurydice. This play is based on the classical Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice premiered in Los Angeles in February 2020 and at the Metropolitan Opera on November 23, 2021. - The New Yorker, "Exquisitely staged by Les Waters and an inventive design team [] Ruhl's wild flights of imagination, some deeply affecting passages and beautiful imagery provide transporting pleasures. ORPHEUS: He finds Eurydice's letter. Or maybe two or three things. 4 0 obj I'm not worthy of you. This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. Ellen Bauerle is executive editor and senior acquisitions editor for Classics and Archaeology, African Studies, Medieval Studies, and Early Modern History at the University of Michigan Press. EURYDICE: Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. It involved hats. He cant see you. stream (The father thinksoh, dear.) She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. Where are you going to get twelve instruments? EURYDICE: an abstracted River of Forgetfulness, This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed that they have the permission to share They should resist the temptation to be classical. (Pause.) Ching is wonderful with her sublime acting chops and successfully convincing as the . It opened Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theater in 2007. You will be called into Chapman Theatre one at a time to present a one-minute monologue. It only means one thing.Or maybe two or three things. Eurydice - Play. Surely not--surely not the sky and the stars too. He reads a letter explaining that although he has been dipped in the River of Forgetfulness, he is one of the few dead who still remembers how to read and write. our global village, blah blah blah. The Hippodrome production of the play was quirky, no doubt: Eurydice wore legwarmers and the Lord of the Underworld, tricked out like Johnny Rotten (lead singer of the 1970s punk rock band the Sex Pistols), glided about on a Segway. Terribly lonely without his daughter, he decides to lose his memories instead of living with them. She can be reached at vepagan@ufl.edu. Since Donald went on the altar boysThere was alcohol on his breath.". Her Father can remember how to read, so he reads the letters to her, which she only ever partially comprehends; again we witness language buckle beneath insistence. a water-pump, Orpheus returns once more through the raining elevator, and he too has forgotten. During the time she wrote the play, Ruhl was facing the death of her father. EURYDICE: Sarah Ruhl's wildly imaginative bittersweet comedy EURYDICE reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice not through Orpheus's infamous pilgrimage to retrieve his bride, but through the eyes of its heroine. Melancholy but playful, Ruhl's reimagining tells the myth from the doomed heroine's point of view, creating what Aucoin calls an . Show: Eurydice Playwright: Sarah Ruhl Style: Contemporary Genre: Dramedy Length: 1-2 minutes. I always have string. Grilling a fish or toasting bread without burning requires singleness of purpose, vigilance and steadfast watching. It can be interesting to see if other peoplelike dead people who wrote booksagree or disagree with what you think. She tries to imitate. A female comedic monologue from the play Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl. 3. Sarah Ruhl has adapted her play "Eurydice" with composer Matthew Aucoin for a Los Angeles Opera production premiering Feb. 1. Don't you want to know what it was about? Orpheus sends another letter, and then resolves to go to the underworld himself to find her. This will help you to better understand the character, his or her situation, the intended audience reaction, and the context for the piece. ORPHEUS: I don't know how to get them to you. The stones might be played as though they are nasty children at a birthday party. Eurydice is an opera composed by Matthew Aucoin with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl based on her 2003 play of the same name, a retelling of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.It had its premiere at the Los Angeles Opera on February 1, 2020, with Aucoin conducting. Has an innocence and a desire for adventure. Rooney, David. Peter Glazer Patrick Russell Acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl reimagines the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of its heroine. Stage Manager at ThirdSpace Theatre Shut up! Take care to change the light bulbs. (Ruhl play) Eurydice is a 2003 play by Sarah Ruhl which retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife. some rusty exposed pipes, Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. . He will put a straw in his mouth while he sleeps. Mything Persons, The Village Voice, June 19, 2007. http://tinyurl.com/pxhow7o, accessed July 24, 2015 I do think up my own thoughts. of - glows off you - like a veil - in reverse - you're like anyone's soul mate - because you have that -. Full of dark humor, lyrical beauty, and wit, Sarah Ruhls Eurydice transforms a traditional myth into a visceral, contemporary meditation on love worth grieving for. Background: Eurydice is saying her final goodbye to Orpheus before she forgets him in the Underworld. Because it makes youa larger part of the human community. Gradually, he teaches her how to speak again. They start walking, arm in arm,on extensive unseen boardwalks, towards the water. - San Francisco Chronicle, RELATED ARTICLES ON BREAKING CHARACTEREnglish and American Sign Language Share the Stage in Production of Eurydice, An Ode to Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICEby Andrew RejanOctober 18, 2016. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects . Words can mean anything. You may also be asked to read sides. 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. Paperback 19.99. It was an astonishing production: I was mesmerized by the lightness of the language, the depth of the characters, the beauty of the set, and the extraordinary emotional resonance of the storytelling. EURYDICE: He makes a gesture of giving the sea to Eurydice. This tool is unavailable at the moment. Ruhl, Sarah. He dismantles the room of stringthe space made of tension and void in which he could communicate with his daughter. Yet the combination of these two simple ideas results in a complex and even visceral space. I don't know what came over me. Eurydice, named one of the 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by . As Eurydice mourns her father, the lord of the underworld returns, having grown from a child to superhuman height. They make a quarter turn and he makes a sweeping gesture. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. Synopsis: A woman tries to say a few words at her son's funeral, but when a cell phone rings, she digresses into a frustrated funny tangent about the ills of cell phones in modern life. Since her death, the bereft Orpheus has been trying in vain to reach her; he sends five letters and even attempts a phone call. Keep quiet about politics, but vote for the right man. Scene two breaks the horizontal line of sight between Orpheus and Eurydice on the beach and the audience at sea; instead, the audience must look up to see the Father standing on a catwalk (figure 2). EURYDICE: He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music. This Study Guide consists of approximately 50pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - I was afraid. 2006. This is only an estimate. Your hair will stand on end as it plays my music and become a hair orchestra. Her mother, Kathleen Kehoe Ruhl, taught high school English and also acted in and directed plays. He had his music. EURYDICE: Sara Krulwich . I hope he finds you. It had very interesting arguments. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. Eurydice marries Orpheus but then wanders off from her own wedding reception and meets a Nasty Interesting Man purporting to have in his possession a letter from her Father. He is affectionate, then solemn, then glad, then solemn, then amused, then solemn. Full of dark humor, lyrical beauty, and wit, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice transforms a traditional myth into a visceral, contemporary meditation on love worth grieving for. Gender: Female. Draft: February, 2007. character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! You either hear it or you dont. Eurydice does not want to marry The Lord of the Underworld. I dont know what came over me. - Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice . March 4, 2017. G>%rsnQBO$nHt}Qam?_@\RCUP!ovE(}{t@`lIt^6({ITm+BO,m.`wZ;NxaJTmz^+9Ks26kKZR,yP"HFq}>F}F3I^UqVj+,FE>q*H$V'|af|fu~5n!z$ 95 Then she dips herself in the river. However, unlike in the myth, both Orpheus and Eurydice are human. Im bad at remembering melodies. I was thinking about you. The Lord of the Underworld, who is played by the same actor who plays The Nasty Interesting Man and has the same sexual aggressiveness, demands Eurydice marry him now that she has returned to the underworld. She falls down beside her father, unconscious. He flirts with her. Eurydice Paperback - January 1, 2008. Sarah Ruhl 's fifteen plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists The Clean House and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), also nominated for a Tony Award. EURYDICE: 4.15. But only one thing at a time. It had its Metropolitan Opera premiere on November 23, 2021. In 2009, I saw it performed at the Hippodrome State Theater in Gainesville, Florida, under the direction of Lauren Caldwell. Why don't you remember it? I'm not worthy of you. MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl begins her Spotlight Residency with the world premiere adaptation of her 2018 epistolary book, Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, and a Friendship, "a resonant and profound contribution from two fully formed artists to the literature of illness" (Slate).Ruhl, whose accomplished body of work includes Eurydice and Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next .