#eurydice (ruhl)

[cassiopoet]

thinking about the parallels between the famous “I can take care of myself just fine.” // “No.” and these greek play quotes:

“I’ll take care of you.” // “It’s rotten work.” // “Not to me. Not if it’s you.” [Pylades and Orestes, Orestes, Anne Carson’s translation.]

“I fear to stain your clothes with blood.” // “Stain them. I don’t care.” [Theseus and Herakles, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson]

“Let go of me.” // “Never.” [Eurydice and Orpheus, either from Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, or Orpheus & Eurydice: A Verse Drama by Edward Eaton.]

like do Neil and Todd even know the tragedies they’re echoing????

[kazthropology]

On love

Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl); Liana Rādulescu ; “Spending More Time” (Ron Hicks); Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller) ; It’s Been a Long, Long Time (Harry James, Kitty Kallen); Unknown ; Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene 1 (Shakespeare); Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo); Unknown, Quora ; Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl)

[eastofedean]

Every devotion is a twisted rope with two ends. Think of a burial.

[despair, supernatural || eurydice, sarah ruhl || eurydice hurried back to the infernal regions, henry thomsom || unkown || orpheus mourning the death of eurydice, ary scheffer || euridice recedes into the underworld, enrico scuri || slaughterhouse-five, kurt vonnegut || all along the watchtower, supernatural || planet of love, richard siken || letters from medea, salma deera || romeo and juliet, william shakespeare || advanced thanatology, supernatural || the oresteia, aeschylus || orpheus and eurydice, carl goos || unkown || metamorphoses, ovid || carry on, supernatural || the death of orpheus, henry leopold levy || do not bring him water, caitlin scarano]

[sunsetcurveauto]

Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

eurydice, sarah ruhl // francis forever, mitski // hamlet, william shakespeare // the worm king's lullaby, richard siken // i swear somewhere this works, trista mateer // walking home, marie howe // amy & roger's epic detour, morgan matson // the epic of gilgamesh // from june to december - summer villanelle, wendy cope // eurydice, sarah ruhl

outhouse, rachel mckibbens // hamlet, william shakespeare // the great believers, rebecca makkai // a little life, hanya yanagihara // introduction to quantum theory, franny choi // concerning the book that is the body of the beloved, gregory orr // the song of achilles, madeline miller // i swear somewhere this works, trista mateer // les miserables, victor hugo // eurydice, sarah ruhl

the epic of gilgamesh // eurydice, sarah ruhl // in the name of love, katie maria // the great believers, rebecca makkai // i swear somewhere this works, trista mateer // the time traveller's wife, audrey niffenegger // hamlet, william shakespeare // on the death of summer and baptismal promises, w.r. // amy & roger's epic detour, morgan matson // road to hell (reprise), anaïs mitchell

[littlespringsongbird]

Eurydice’s arrival in the underworld

Hadestown (Anais Mitchell) / Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl)

[dragonladies]

ORPHEUS IN SEARCH

letter from Isabella of Parma to Archduchess Maria Christina. October 6, 1762. (translated by me, excerpt taken from the essay Women in Love: Gluck's Orpheus as a Source of Romantic Consolation in Vienna, Paris, and Stockholm.)

Orpheus in a Wood, Henri Martin.

eurydice, Sarah Ruhl.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma.

"Wait For Me [intro]", Hadestown.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma.

"Doubt Comes In", Hadestown

Orfeo ed Euridice, Christoph Gluck

"Wait For Me", Hadestown.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma.

"It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)", Arcade Fire.

[squidexplosions]

“How will you remember?”

“That I love you?”

“Yes.”

“That’s easy. I can’t help it.”

Heaven Sent (2015) / Eurydice (2003)

Detailed image descriptions below cut.

First image description:

Twelve and Clara’s hands holding the neuro-block together. Yellow text reads “ORPHEUS: How will you remember?” There’s fragments of the Doctor Who episode script edited into the images: “CLARA (Eyes starting to fill): I don’t think I could ever forget you.” “THE DOCTOR: Clara. I don’t think you’re ever going to have to.” “CLARA: Doctor! Oh God, please, I’m sorry, Doctor!”

The Doctor looks at Clara, fending off an expression of hurt. He’s vulnerable, on the ground, looking up at her. Yellow text reads: “EURYDICE: That I love you?”

Clara’s crying. Yellow text reads: “ORPHEUS: Yes.”

Second image description:

The Doctor’s side profile as he speaks. Yellow text reads: “EURYDICE: That’s easy.” Fragment of script reads: “CLARA: What Clara told you in the Cloisters…” “THE DOCTOR: I don’t remember a thing about it.”

Clara’s turn to fend off the grief in her expression. She looks down to avoid the Doctor’s gaze, purses her lips. Script fragment reads: “THE DOCTOR: There’s one thing I know about her. Just one thing. If I met her again, I would absolutely know.”

Another fragment reads: “On Clara’s face – a look of such pain. No, he doesn’t know. Not at all.” Clara’s in focus in the background of the frame now, about to sneak away in the diner. But in the blurry foreground—the Doctor. He’s playing his guitar. Script fragment reads: “CLARA: You said memories become stories when we forget them. Maybe some of them become songs.” Yellow text reads: “EURYDICE: I can’t help it.”

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

put your feet in the river, and swim

Dear Callum’s future wife,

I’m going to say right now that this isn't for you. I don't want anyone else to have his love– I want it to be all mine, forever. 

I should’ve known it would never be like that, though. We were doomed from the start, by whatever’s out there, so maybe you and him won’t be. You should only have to be doomed with one person.

It hurts to imagine him walking down lover’s lane with anyone but me– that's this path he took me on, with pink apple blossom petals on the ground and the sun setting through the leaves. It was its own little world with just us two.

But that's selfish. He deserves to love and move on and be happy, and if you are what gives him that, then I wish you all the best with every bit of my soul.

Callum is more than anyone could dream or wish for, and finding him will be like you are coming home for the first time. You must appreciate and know it every single day, every moment, with every fiber of your being.

So take care of him. And do it well, or I swear I’ll find you and I’ll kill you even if I’m already dead, because he can’t go through anything like what I did to him again.

read more on ao3!

[haverkampink]

Designs for Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, opening in just a couple weeks!! The Stones and Hades make more sense in the context of the scenic design--we went for an upstairs/downstairs art deco corporate aesthetic for the Underworld. The haves and have-nots, the breakdown of language after death, and shapes and colors suggestive of both classical architecture and the all-important river.

Our production has two actors playing Eurydice on alternating nights, hence the two people in the Eurydice renderings.

All designs are my own, please don't use these without permission.

[themarionette-theporcelaindoll]

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl || Noho Hank and Cristobal, Barry 2018-2023

[nulfaga]

the world's wife was 99 and eurydice was 2004. whenever i read them together i think ruhl must have taken some cue from duffy consciously or not. (Not because of the very elementary "challenging the roles of women in world mythology" thing but because of the way Orpheus is characterized: as a god-touched scatterbrain who appears harmless and nonthreatening, swept away by his own music, but whose wife is doomed by his talent. prophet and lancer; jesus and judas—except when the lancer is a man, he is doomed as an ordinary person is doomed by a messiah. When she is a woman, she is doomed as a woman is doomed by a famous man, which is much worse because it's BORING)

worse than doom is boring doom that makes you into like a wax figurine of a beautiful eternal muse w/ nothing behind her eyes.

[malinaa]

Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice

[eastofedean]

And so it goes...

[eurydice, sarah ruhl || lazarus rising, supernatural || despair, supernatural]

[riveracheron]

severance fans. severance fans who like the orpheus/eurydice parallels. im begging you . read/watch eurydice by sarah ruhl . goddddddddd

heres a pdf its a short play. read it naow

[littlespringsongbird]

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

[helenaredamancy]

you said she was withholding, well, that's not quite true. perhaps she held back love from you. [quote dump]

how the body falls apart/your lips and me || i never wanted to love you || lilith (diablo iv anthem) || people will say we're in love || just another day || people pt.2 || maybe || eurydice || dear my friend || what would i do?