Beth Dell
Managing Director
Beowulf Alley Theatre
11 South 6th Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85701
(520) 622-4460 Admin.
(520) 882-0555 Box Office
theatre@beowulfalley.org
www.beowulfalley.org
Usual Office Hours:
Tues-Fri 10:30a-4p plus
additional production hours

2 tickets to “Eurydice”  at beowulf Alley Theatre

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Lydia Borowicz
January 21-February 6, 2011

Playwright Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Orpheus lives in musical reverie, Eurydice in the intrigue of words and interesting ideas.  A victim of manipulation by the Lord of The Underworld, Eurydice dies on her wedding day.  She is reunited with her father in the Underworld, where together they struggle to recall the memory of lost love.   With characters you might meet on a NY subway, quirky plot twists, and breathtaking imagery, the play is a magical dip in the flow the unconscious.

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

Sarah Ruhl is a fresh, compelling, and versatile American playwright. Her play, Eurydice, was written while a graduate student at Brown University. She received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship award. This young playwright is emerging as a powerful presence in the American theater. Ruhl’s play, The Clean House, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005.  Her plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and Europe at such venues as the Lincoln Center Theater, New York, the Actor’s Centre, London, the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among many others.

Eugenia Woods, Director, lives in Portland, Oregon but travels to Tucson frequently. While in Tucson, she has produced and directed the four plays of the First Words: Relativity play festival and directed the award-winning production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Stark Naked Productions, as well as Eight for 8 and The Pillowman for E & A Productions. Eugenia is active in the Portland theatre community, pursuing her study and exploration of playwriting, directing and dramaturgy.

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, a 501 (c)(3) organization, is committed to enriching the community and enhancing appreciation of the arts through the production of innovative, invigorating theatre and theatrical education with the highest standards for acting and production.

Formed in response to dialogues with local professional actors who wanted a permanent home for theatre artists from the Tucson community, BATC’s mission is to create captivating experiences for its patrons, students, and the Tucson community through the highest artistic and technical quality productions and education programs. And true to its roots, BATC also strives to provide a theatre where performing artists, educators, and technicians can develop and present their skills.

Beowulf Alley's unique name was formed by combining two words that reflect opposite ideas. Beowulf (recognized as the oldest known Anglo-Saxon literary work possibly transcribed from oral performance) stands for the strong traditional and classical theatrical form, whereas Alley is evocative of a contemporary, urban, edgy approach to theatre. The merged name of Beowulf Alley therefore boldly reflects the company’s goal to present a broad range of works with the greatest excellence, integrity and innovation.