Eurydice

"Ruhl's wild flights of the imagination, some deeply affecting passages and beautiful imagery provide transporting pleasures." ~Variety

"A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth... Watching it, we enter a singular, surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream—an anxiety dream of love and loss—where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious." ~New Yorker

“As I watched the final minutes of the Yale Rep’s knockout production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, tears came with the suddenness of grief… The heroine’s arrival in Hades (by elevator, accompanied by a stunning surge of rain) is memorable for technical reasons, but it wouldn’t mean a thing without this playwright’s singular voice… While Eurydice is certainly a play for our fearful times, it is about every death, every loss, every paralyzing pang of grief… Sarah Ruhl has looked into the heart of darkness and found an awful beauty.” ~New York Times

"Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its rhythms and design." ~San Francisco Chronicle