Orpheus and Eurydice
Play Description
A rock retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, combining elements from Dante’s Inferno and Nirvana’s lyrics, to explore the essence of faith and love.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“adobe [theatre company] knows just how to retool old forms and artists … to produce new theater games. So its ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE begins with bad sex and ends with death and everlasting angst, with rock ‘n’ roll in the middle … Orpheus fronts and writes songs for his band In Your Thrace (That’s right, the Greek Orpheus was from Thrace) … Myths and references crisscross brazenly. The playwright and director Jeremy Dobrish (adobe’s artistic director) accomplishes all this with compact writing and versatile humor (sometimes he’s witty, sometimes he’s farcical, sometimes he’s deliberately corny) … It’s all quite winning. Young, smart, a trifle skittish about sustained emotion, but filled with comic pleasures.” —Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 6/1/2001 |
Pages | 74 |
ISBN | 9780881457223 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Originally produced by adobe theatre company
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
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