Eurydice at NextStop Theatre

Eurydice

NextStop Theatre
269 Sunset Business Park Herndon

Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, this play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

Thru - Nov 20, 2016

Price: $35 - $45

Box Office: 703-481-5930

www.nextstoptheatre.org/shows/eurydice/

Eurydice Reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...Even after leaving the production, theatergoers may find themselves haunted by the image of Eurydice, in a bright red dress, balancing a translucent umbrella upside down in the pool. The umbrella floats there for a moment, like a boat on the river Styx."

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- Celia Wren

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Eurydice is a lush, captivating play, all the more alluring because it defies easy analysis. The design is incredible, and the acting, when deeply felt, brings the poetry to life. It is well worth a visit to anyone who craves a truly mesmerizing play, and isn't afraid to make a journey of their own - as long as you don't turn back."

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- Michael Poandl

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...This play is truly a modern Greek tragedy in that it explores the differences and similarities between their view of death and our own. They did not picture a good and a bad place like we do, but a whole other country where people lived just as they did on Earth, but without their former identity or memory. While our underworld is one of flames and eternal suffering, the Greeks is a slow but steady decay of the mind like stones thrown in a river, making waves that eventually vanish into the smooth surface of the water. In this, Ruhl seems to argue, is the more tragic end."

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- Stephanie House

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

"...What makes this work, in the final analysis, is the intelligence and consistency that Brock brings to this production. I recall the more playful version Round House did seven years ago; it was fun to watch, and "interesting", but this version delivers the goods in a clearer way. J.D. Madsen's set was a Hell for our times; canted in grey (C.S. Lewis called Hell "the grey place") and perfectly consistent with Ruhl's concept (her Hell resembles our own lives to the extent that Eurydice's dad still had a regular job to which he had to go every morning in Hell.)"

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- Tim Treanor