Eurydice By Ashlee Temple: Play Analysis

On March 9, 2017 my friends and I went to watch Eurydice, which was written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Ashlee Temple. The playwright was amazing because while watching the play I could feel the emotion of each character that was shown; it was organized so well that had multiple emotions throughout the play that were being expressed towards the audience. The playwright was trying to convey the emotion that the tow lovers were going through. Some themes in love, trust, death, and memory. These themes are protrayed throughout the play. I definitely think that the play was worth seeing because they way that the stage was set up led the audience to be more closer to each character. I believe that the best plays are the ones that you feel like you are there and I had sensed that in this play. If I ever get a chance to do this play I would definitely do it, and hope that I can make other feel the emotion I felt while watching this.

Eurydice is about a girl named Eurydice and her choice weather to stay with her father in the underworld or go back to her lover.

It is Eurydice's wedding day, she is suppose to marry a singer named Orpheus. They loved each other very much, everything was going well until a terrible accident happened in which Eurydice dies. Eurydice goes to the underworld, and forgets everything about her past life on Earth. There she meets a stranger who is actually her father. Eurydice's father has his memory, but Eurydice doesn't, so her father tries very hard to get back her memory and eventually her succeeds. Orpheus, who is very distraught over his wife's death goes to the underworld with his music, their she has to make a choice wether she stays with her father in the underworld or goes back with Orpheus to

Earth.

Overall I think this was a real good play. The actors were convincing and conveyed the right emotions at the right time. Their acting was very realistic and had very good interactions with the other actors. Julia Moran (Eurydice) was a really good actor she was really convincing. Out of all the characters Moran was the only actor that I could feel the characters emotions myself. I believe that Orpheus was a decent actor. He wasn't convey the emotions that well. Although in some scenes I could, but in most I could not feel the love between the two characters because his character was lacking emotion and I think he could have improved on his dialect as well. I think the staging was really good. There were enough props. It was a perfect amount. There weren't too many props nor were there too less, it was just enough to make the play go on smoothly. The lighting was good, they had the spotlight were it was needed. There wasn't any overexposure in the lighting nor underexposure. The characters, props, and background were perfectly visible and not over done with the lighting. There weren't a lot of skills in this play, but the dancing and small portion of singing was done right and no note were off key. The costumes were spot on to the setting were the plays took place. The costumes are really important for a character because sometimes you can tell someone's characteristics by their costumes, and I truly believe that the costumes had played a major role. The major disappointment in the play was defiantly the scene changes. I believe that there could have been another way that the stage director and director could've had scene changes, without dis engaging the audience by making it pitch black in the theater. I would have preferred if they used a different method because there were so many scene changes, that I really got tired off.