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Eurydice, Young Vic Theatre
Eurydice, Young Vic Theatre
Poetry, but too little emotion in this retold Greek myth
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Love's young dream: Ony Uhiara and Osi Okerafor Alastair Muir
Since Eurydice was the ill-fated wife of Orpheus, master musician, it’s not inappropriate that this reworking of the classical myth by the award-winning US writer Sarah Ruhl should be so much like a song. Her language has a kind of blunt lyricism, and the action of her drama, with its recurrent waves of water imagery, has a vivid, surreal fluidity that eddies and flows like an elusive melody. Sometimes the playfulness is beguiling; sometimes it merely seems arch. And in Bijan Sheibani’s stark production, it is too deliberate, and too rarely genuinely moving, to permit Ruhl’s themes of love and loss to resonate.
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