EURYDICE at Lake Lobby At Main Street Landing

Foul Contending Rebel’s delightfully ingenious creation of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice immerses the viewers in a reimagining of the Greek fantasy of Orpheus and Eurydice.

The perform moves concerning the earth of the dwelling and the land of the lifeless, performed with 3-quarter thrust staging at Lake Lobby at Major Street Landing in Burlington.

In the primary myth, Orpheus, a wonderful musician, is in enjoy with Eurydice, who is bitten by a snake and dies shortly soon after they marry. Orpheus, determined with grief, travels to the underworld and convinces Hades to enable him direct Eurydice again into the earth of dwelling. Orpheus is warned not to search back again as they leave the underworld. Orpheus does, of class, look back again, and his action sends Eurydice back again to the underworld forever.

In Sarah Ruhl’s enjoy, Eurydice has a exclusive voice and a fraught partnership with Orpheus. Eurydice (Harley Winzenried) enjoys to read, but Orpheus (Eamon Lynch) questions the price of ebook-discovering. Orpheus is preoccupied by his songs, and annoyed by Eurydice’s incapacity to carry a tune. Continue to, they are quite youthful and incredibly in love. Following their wedding ceremony, Eurydice goes out for drinking water and meets the “Interesting Guy” (who is an additional type of snake in a delicate parallel to the original fantasy) who doubles as Lord of the Underworld. Eurydice is enticed to go to the Interesting Man’s (Katie Gilmartin) condominium, but operates absent when he says he loves her. Eurydice journeys heading down the stairs, and slipping like Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit gap (as Ruhl describes the established of Hades), she ultimately arrives in the underworld by way of an elevator holding her suitcase and an umbrella. Her reminiscences are absent, and when her deceased father (Ben Ash) greets her, she are not able to bear in mind him, or everything else for that make any difference, not even how to cry.

This dreamworld of the land of the dead is comprehensive of huge human thoughts reduction, appreciate, grief and the discomfort of reclaiming memories. The ambiance of the soundscape, made by Harley Winzenried, defines transitions fbetween the worlds of the dwelling and the dead. Costumes (Grace Callahan) denote the passage of time, and bestow drollness on the Stones (Jillian Holland, Connor Kendall, Ellie Guyon) and fanciful spectacle for the Lord of the Underworld (Katie Gilmartin).

Foul Contending Rebels Theater Collective generation, directed by Caitlin Durkin, uses the substantial bodily abilities of the actors, primarily Harley Winzenried (Eurydice), to greatly enhance the emotional electric power of the action, supported by movement coach, Tove Wooden.

Durkin describes the play as a “feminist adaptation of a classic” fantasy, simply because it is Eurydice who establishes the fate of the fans, and not Orpheus, as in the unique fantasy. Eurydice is not a design of a strong, self-actualizing female but, far more importantly, she learns to respect her have emotions and act accordingly.

Performances are Friday March 25th at 7:30pm, Saturday March 26th at 2:00pm and 7:30pm, and Sunday March 27th at 7:30pm. Tickets are presented on a sliding scale with a advised price of $20.00. Tickets are accessible on line at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/224668037147 as nicely as at the door (income only at the door).

Pictured: Harley Winzenried as Eurydice

Image Credits: Caitlin Durkin

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