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Eurydice (2003)

by Sarah Ruhl(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0573662444 (ISBN13: 9780573662447)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Samuel French

review 1: This, almost poem like play by Sarah Ruhl takes a Greek Myth and turns it into a kind of glowing little story that activates genuine emotion in the reader. The only thing that prevents me from giving it five stars is the feeling I was left with. It is an unquestionably competent play, but I think that short of seeing it performed I won't ever be able to understand it's full scope. The language is altogether beautiful, and the story is in turns cloying and genuinely warm. I would absolutely be interested in reading more by Sarah Ruhl, and I would be thrilled to see one of her plays actually performed.
review 2: This play was okay, but not all that spectacular.It didn't exactly click for me and I may, or may not, have a different impression of it had I seen it pe... morerformed on-stage as opposed to reading it. Also, I wasn't very fond of how Hades was portrayed. He came off as really creepy, and not in a good way I get this is a reimagining of the original myth of Orpheus and Eurydice but I get why Hades is going after Eurydice when he already has a wife; otherwise it just doesn't make any sense to me. Oh Persephone, where are you when we need you?Again, I probably would have a different impression if I saw a performance of this, but other then that, not for me. less

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