Eurydice At The San Joaquin Delta College

On March 10th 2017, my Mother and I went to see Eurydice at the San Joaquin Delta College. This was a play that was based off of an original Greek play called Orpheus which was then modernized and retold from Eurydice’s perspective by playwright Sarah Ruhl. Which has now been put on by Director Ashlee Temple and the students at Delta College. This play was very well done and introduced those familiar to the original myth to another perspective to such a classic story. It kept the original story in essence while adding a whole other layer to what was already a thought-provoking myth. Armed with my previous knowledge of the myth and what I learned so far in this Drama class here is my review.

When I first walked into the theater my first impression

As well as for breaks in between scenes and for the actors to move around on stage and to move props into place. Leading up to the play itself they had a lot of modern music playing letting one know the type of play they were about to witness. While during the play it kept up with a constant stream of background sounds such as the river flowing in the underworld and the gunshot as Eurydice was shot. Along with the music Orpheus played himself. For such a small crew they did a spectacular job putting the play on. Which helped to tell the story of young lovers caught up in unbelievably tragic

It is based off of a Tragic Greek Myth and in its modern retelling it gets no less tragic. It deals in both tragic circumstances and tragic irretrievability.(170-171) Meaning that throughout the play the main characters, (Orpheus, Eurydice) must deal with both circumstances that they have no control over and in the end they realize the irretrievability of their old lives. The play itself ends with Eurydice and her father dead in the underworld with Orpheus standing over them in pain. An ending similar to that of the ending in Romeo and Juliet yet another tragic story ending in the death of a pair of young lovers. This can be seen as something all young lovers fear this permanent separation with no hope of easing the