By Chuck Graham
TucsonStage.com
If you thought "Blackbird" was good, playwright Sarah Ruhl is up next with her surreal adaptation for the stage of "Eurydice!"
The Beowulf Alley production is directed by Lydia Borowicz.
This surreal modernization for the stage brings the Orpheus myth of his descent into Hades straight into the New York subway system, an apt metaphor if there ever was one.
Ruhl first captured our attention with "The Clean House" in 2004, then landed on Broadway with honors in 2009 with "In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)." In the middle was "Eurydice," in which she complicates the mythology of gender by introducing her father. We remember, Orpheus was about to marry Eurydice when she died.
Screaming his angry frustration with the gods, Orpheus rushed into Hades to snatch back his bride literally from the jaws of death.
Ruhl wonders what might have happened if Eurydice didn't want to go with Orpheus.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays, running Jan. 21-Feb. 6 at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave. For details and reservations, (520) 622-4460, or visit www.beowulfalley.org
