Location: New York City
Time: June 2007
Director: Les Waters
Set Design: Scott Bradley
Costume Design: Meg Neville
Lighting Design: Russel A. Champa
Sound Design: Bray Porter
Choreography: John Caraffa
Dramaturgy: Amy Boratko
You might almost wish there were subtitles here, alerting you to the inner meaning of the lyrical, illogical and, yes, sometimes overly quirky dialogue. (The most sensibly spoken characters onstage are probably the blunt-spoken chorus of stones, strange creatures with pea-green faces, in Victorian garb, who keep telling Eurydice to shut up and get used to being dead.)
Take, for instance, the tender, wrenchingly sad vision of Eurydice’s dead father, who can watch his daughter’s progress from the underworld below, miming the act of walking her down the aisle on her wedding day. He nods proudly at the guests on either side, gives her an encouraging smile, offers her up with a mixture of resignation and worry and joy. And he is utterly alone. As performed with impeccable simplicity and grace by Charles Shaw Robinson, this small vignette is among the most desolate and moving moments I can remember seeing on a stage.
Charles Isherwood
June 19, 2007
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/theater/reviews/19seco.html
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