The underworld should resemble the world of alice in wonderland more than it resembles hades. The play is called polaroid stories by naomi iizuka. This, almost poem like play by sarah ruhl takes a greek myth and turns it into a kind of g. She is thrilled to be working in polaroid stories to finish off her time at csu. Polaroid stories is a dramatic adaptation of ovids metamorphoses in two acts. Payton delivers powerful monologues as eurydice, who, after crossing the river of forgetting into the underworld, is haunted by the voice of her.
Dramatic comedy 5m, 2f unit set in eurydice, sarah ruhl reimagines the classic myth of orpheus through the eyes of. She would like to thank her family, friends, teachers, and fellow students for all their support along the way. Polaroid stories act 11 11 polaroid stories incidental transformations 57 g. The greer garson theatres newest production polaroid stories goes up this weekend and next weekend. The myths of echo and narcissus, orpheus and eurydice, philomel and tereu. Have fun with the classic greek myth of orpheus and eurydice with this play to be read by your entire class. The collection of poems by carol ann duffy entitled the worlds wife, was first published in 1999 and presents stories, myths, fairy tales and characters in western culture from the point. When he played, the birds would swoop down from the heavens and sit on the branches above his head. Christina fontana eurydice christina will be graduating in may with a concentration in technical theatre and emphasis in stage management. Polaroid stories script pdf namo web editor 6 crackadds.
Polaroid stories full script free download as pdf file. Eager to be alone together, orpheus and eurydice begin to dance. Download or read eurydice 2003 in pdf, epub formats. Polaroid stories combines myth and truth to tell stories of homeless. By naomi iizuka college of liberal arts colorado state university. Although the theatre schools production of naomi iizukas polaroid stories is set in. This site is inactive this site has been marked as inactive because no members have logged in recently.
The stones might be played as though they are nasty children at a birthday party. One of my favorite monologues from the second act is from the scene titled the. Polaroid stories 1999, play by american author naomi iizuka. Orpheus and eurydice 1 there has only been one mortal whose skill at playing the lyre compared with the skill of the god of music, golden apollo, and that mortals name was orpheus.
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