Eurydice Speaks

Studio 360 | Feb 9, 2011

Playwright Sarah Ruhl always wondered how Eurydice experienced her death, what she really thought of her lover Orpheus and who she met in the underworld. Audiences in San Francisco discovered surprising answers to Ruhl’s questions when her play, Eurydice, premiered in 2003. Ruhl told Sarah Lilley how she imagined the young woman’s afterlife.

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