Revisited Classic
Eurydice
BY SARAH RUHL.
DIRECTED BY STELLA POWELL-JONES.
3 October -
9 November 2024
9 November 2024
Overview
“Love is a big, funny word”
It’s Eurydice’s wedding day. Having made it down the aisle to Orpheus, she leaves her wedding party and trips and falls… all the way down into the Underworld. After a dip in the river of forgetfulness, she can’t remember her own name, never mind Orpheus. Discovering a chorus of stones, a tyrant on a tricycle, and her father in a room made of string, will Eurydice find a way to break the rules of the Underworld? Will love triumph over death?
Following Orlando, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl and Artistic Director Stella Powell-Jones reunite. Refocusing the classic myth on its heroine and her surreal descent to the land of the dead, this fresh look on a timeless love story asks what happens when we die, and what happens when we live.
Eurydice is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
People
Katy Brittain
Stone
Stone
Katy has performed prolifically at the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as on the West End and at theatres across the UK. She has also been seen in television dramas on ITV and films from Brown Girl Productions.
Keaton Guimarães-Tolley
Orpheus
Orpheus
Keaton Guimarães-Tolley trained at RADA and École Philippe Gaulier. Also a writer, musician, and clown, he debuted his solo show, Francisco de Nata, at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Tom Morley
Stone
Stone
Tom is a British actor based in London. Raised in Gloucestershire, Tom moved to London to study acting at Drama Centre and LAMDA. Since then he has acted in feature films, television drama and theatres in London and across the UK.
Eve Ponsonby
Eurydice
Eurydice
Eve has acted in feature films, television drama and theatres on the West End and across the UK. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
Leyon Stolz-Hunter
Stone
Stone
Leyon trained at National Youth Theatre, Identity Drama School and Unseen Drama School and studied Drama and Film at Anglia Ruskin. Alongside his theatre work, he has appeared in the award-winning short film, Sadhbh, alongside Laura Whitmore.
Dickon Tyrrell
Father
Father
Dickon trained at Liverpool University, National Youth Theatre and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is a faculty member of education at Shakespeare’s Globe. He teaches and directs at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and LAMDA. He performs regularly with Elizabeth Kenny’s Theatre of the Ayre. Dickon is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Joe Wiltshire Smith
A Nasty Interesting Man/The Lord of the Underworld
A Nasty Interesting Man/The Lord of the Underworld
Joe is a Welsh actor who graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2017. He represented RWCMD at the Sam Wanamaker Festival in his second year, and received the J.O Francis Memorial Award in 2017 and the Gareth Jones Scholarship in 2016. He has since performed in theatres across the UK.
Sarah Ruhl
Writer
Writer
Stella Powell-Jones
Director
Director
Elliot Pritchard
Associate Director & Movement Director
Associate Director & Movement Director
Tina Torbey
Set Designer
Set Designer
Emily Stuart
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Chris McDonnell
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Carmel Smickersgill
Sound Designer
Sound Designer
Marc Frankum
Casting Director
Casting Director
Pauline McGrath
Assistant Set Designer
Assistant Set Designer
Lisa Cochrane
Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Media
“It all suits the stage like a dream, slippery and fantastical.”
The Guardian on Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando