SARAH RUHLS EURYDICE

PRESENTED BY:
Cultural Center of the Philippines and Tanghalang Pilipino

DATE/TIME/ VENUE:
February 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 2017
March 3, 4, 5, 2017
Fridays at 8:00PM
Saturdays at 3:00PM & 8:00PM
Sundays at 3:00PM
Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)

DESCRIPTION:
An inventive and devastating take of Sarah Ruhl on the classic myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice as adapted to Filipino by Guelan Luarca. Acclaimed
director and stage designer Loy Arcenas directs a brilliant cast composed of
Audie Gemora, Julliene Mendoza, Nanding Josef, Alfritz Blanche and the
Tanghalang Pilipino Actors Company (Jonathan Tadioan, Marco Viaa,
Antonette Go, Lhorvie Ann Nuevo, Doray Dayao, JV Ibesate, Aldo Vencilao,
Joshua Tayco, Ybes Bagadiong, Blanche Buhia, Eunice Pacia, and Monique
Nellas).

Be mesmerized and transported to the underworld as you watch the play

tackle universal themes of life, love, grief, and death!

SYNOPSIS:
Sarah Ruhls Eurydice retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of
Eurydice, his wife. The play consists of three movements, divided into
numerous scenes. The story focuses on Eurydice's choice to return to earth
with Orpheus or to stay in the underworld with her father (a character
created by Ruhl). Ruhl made several changes to the original myth's story-
line. The most noticeable of these changes was that in the myth Orpheus
succumbs to his desires and looks back at Eurydice, while in Ruhl's version
Eurydice calls out to Orpheus (causing him to look back) perhaps in part
because of her fear of re-entering the world of the living and perhaps as a
result of her desire to remain in the land of the dead with her father.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhls plays include For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest
Boy, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play,
Dead Mans Cell Phone, Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando, Late: a Cowboy
song, Dear Elizabeth and Stage Kiss. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize
finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on
Broadway at the Lyceum by Lincoln Center Theater, off-Broadway at
Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, and at Lincoln Centers Mitzi Newhouse
Theater. They have also been produced regionally all over the country, often
with premiers at Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the
Goodman Theater, and the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago. Her plays
have also been produced internationally and have been translated into over
twelve languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from
Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the
Susan Smith Blackburn award, the Whiting award, the Lily Award, a PEN
award for mid-career playwrights, and the MacArthur "genius" award. Her
book of essays 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write was published by Faber
and Faber last fall and named a Times notable book of the year. You can read
more about her work on www.SarahRuhlplaywright.com. She teaches at the
Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her family.

REVIEWS:
"Rhapsodically beautiful. A weird and wonderful new play" - an inexpressibly
moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of
memory. - The New York Times

"Exhilarating!! A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth, lush and limpid as a

dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes
menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious." - The New Yorker

"Exquisitely staged by Les Waters and an inventive design team... Ruhl's wild
flights of imagination, some deeply affecting passages and beautiful imagery
provide transporting pleasures. They conspire to create original, at times
breathtaking, stage pictures." - Variety

"Touching, inventive, invigoratingly compact and luminously liquid in its

rhythms and design, "Eurydice" reframes the ancient myth of ill-fated love to
focus not on the bereaved musician but on his dead bride -- and on her
struggle with love beyond the grave as both wife and daughter."

TICKET INFORMATION:
Ticket Prices: P1,500 | 1,000
Discounts:
50% off for students
20% off for senior citizens, government and military employees, and PWD.
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Call 832-3704 | 891-9999