History Theatre / Eurydice

* GreekChorus: The Stones act as a chorus that comment on the action and Eurydice's thoughts.

* AdaptationDistillation: The opera keeps Hades' appearances the same and also refers to him by name, while in the play he's referred to by title and appears in several different forms, including a child, an older man, and a superhumanly tall being.

Eurydice and Orpheus's newly-wed bliss is tested when Eurydice meets an interesting man who claims to have a letter from her deceased father, and shattered completely when Eurydice dies in an attempt to retrieve the letter. While Orpheus mourns in the world above, Eurydice lives down below in the Underworld, where shower stalls wipe the memories of incoming souls.

Accompanied only by a chorus of stones and the shade of her father, Eurydice struggles to remember anything about her past life, all while avoiding the lord of the Underworld's attempts to make her his bride. Meanwhile, Orpheus decides to rescue his bride, but will Eurydice want to go back after all's said and done?

* LiteralSplitPersonality: In the opera, Orpheus has a double that adds emphasis to several of his songs that represents his heroic quest, contrasting with the regular-guy Orpheus.

* ComingOfAgeStory: Eurydice grows and matures during her time in the Underworld and is eventually forced to choose between staying with her father and risking coming back to life with Orpheus.

* AdaptationDistillation: The opera kept Hades' appearances the same and also referred to him by name, while in the play he was referred to by title and appeared in several different forms, including a child, an older man, and a superhumanly tall being.

* DownerEnding: By the end, only the lord of the underworld gets a happy ending, as [[spoiler: Eurydice's father drowns himself in forgetfulness, Hades forces Eurydice to marry him, and Orpheus has died and can't read Eurydice's last letter to him]].

''Eurydice'' is a play by Sarah Ruhl that was first performed in 2003; it was adapted by Matthew Aucoin into an opera of the same name in 2020. Focusing on the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology myth of Orpheus and Eurydice]] largely from Eurydice's perspective, the play is a surreal, poetic affair that relies heavily on abstractions and set designs that can be interpreted as directors wish.

''Eurydice'' is a play by Sarah Ruhl that was first performed in 2003; it later became an opera in 2020. Focusing on the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology myth of Orpheus and Eurydice]] largely from Eurydice's perspective, the play is a surreal, poetic affair that relies heavily on abstractions and set designs that can be interpreted as directors wish.

Eurydice and Orpheus's newly-wed bliss is tested when Eurydice meets an interesting man who claims to have a letter from her deceased father and shattered completely when Eurydice dies in an attempt to retrieve the letter. While Orpheus mourns in the world above, Eurydice lives down below in the Underworld, where shower stalls wipe the memories of incoming souls.

''Eurydice'' is a play by Sarah Ruhl that was first performed in 2003; it later became an opera in 2020. Focusing on the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology myth of Orpheus and Eurydice]] largely from Eurydice's perspective, the play is a surreal affair that relies heavily on abstractions and set designs that can be interpreted as directors wish.

* CompositeCharacter: Eurydice acts as both herself, the wife of Orpheus, and as Persephone, Hades' wife who he kidnapped.

* AdaptationDistillation: The opera kept Hades' appearances the same and also referred to him by name, while in the play he was referred to by title and appeared in several different forms, notably a child.

* EasyAmnesia: Eurydice, her father, and other souls ares tripped of their memories by showers in reference to the River Lethe, also losing the power of language.