It's true. Right now my main project is a play I'm doing, entitled Eurydice. It's quite an amazing play, once it's revised a little bit. There are a few times where the dialogue is a little bit... Well... awkward I believe is the word.
The basic plot is along the lines of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus is the world's greatest musician, playing the most beautiful music in the world, and Eurydice is his lover. Eurydice is more of a philosopher and scholar; she enjoys her books and thoughts. They get married, too young and too much in love, and on their wedding day she runs into this Nasty Interesting Man. He says he has a letter from her long-dead father, and takes her back to his high-rise apartment, where he proceeds to tell her he loves her and she needs to be with him. Naturally, she gets scared, and manages to fall down 600 stairs, and perishes.
She goes into the Underworld (based on Hades) and forgets everything. She finds her father there, and after some pleading realises that he is, in fact, her father. They strike up the relationship they never really had, and Eurydice even comes to like it in the Underworld. Meanwhile, Orpheus tries to look for her, and searches for a way to find her. Finally, he decides to use his music to break into the Underworld and get her back. As the myth goes, he is allowed to walk out, and trust that Eurydice is behind her, for he cannot look behind him at her until they have left. Eurydice seems hesitant, and as they are walking out, she calls his name, and he looks. After quite a depressing scene between the two, Eurydice dies a second death, and heads back to her "home" with her father. She finds that her father, depressed, has dipped himself in The River of Forgetting again, and does not remember her or anything else, really. The Lord of the Underworld decides to take her for his wife, and goes to prepare the wedding; devasted and alone, Eurydice decides to dip herself in the River again. The play ends with Orpheus entering the Underworld, after what we assume to be a suicide, and gets dipped in the River.
Depressing, I know, but also hauntingly beautiful. Besides, at this point I've already done too much work on it to just put it down, especially seeing as rehearsals start at the beginning of April. There isn't a set show date yet, seeing as my partner in our theatre company and producer is currently attending NYU and I'm stuck in small-town Auburn in Northern California. Nevertheless, it will be an amazing work of art, my first directing experience, and an exciting rehearsal process. Look forward to more posts about it.
