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It’s hard to pinpoint which direction “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage” embarks on, though, because it travels through numerous ideologies.
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“Eurydice” is a story of loss. In the original Greek myth that Sarah Ruhl’s weird, lovely play is based upon, Orpheus loses his wife Eurydice to the underworld, and his grief drives him to follow her there to get her back. In Ruhl’s reimagination, it is Eurydice’s loss which anchors
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At age 20, playwright Sarah Ruhl lost her father to cancer. 10 years later, she wrote “Eurydice,” a reinterpretation of the Greek myth “Orpheus and Eurydice.” At Shotgun Players in Berkeley, a fearless cast brings new life to an ancient tale of loss and, in the process, proves that the
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That buzzing you’re hearing isn’t your cellphone — or at least it shouldn’t be, because it would be rude to leave your phone on during a play. It’s a prop vibrator in BareStage’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated “In The Next Room (The Vibrator Play).” Long before the time
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A theatrical production that takes its entire script from a 30-year correspondence of letters between two 20th-century poets may not sound like the most appealing of plays for the audiences of today. However, Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters have masterfully crafted together one of the
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Taming the trouser snake, frosting the pie, unlocking the chamber of secrets, battling the purple-headed yogurt slinger — we all know what these phrases really mean. It’s been around since human beings first realized hands could be useful for something other than high-fiving and biting one’s thumb in insult.
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