Eurydice presented by Promethean Theatre at Athenaeum Theatre

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...It's a fascinating exploration, but while there are strengths in this Promethean Theatre Ensemble production-most notably, Sandy Elias as Father-Ruhl's script deserves a tighter, faster-paced staging in keeping with the light, playful elegance of her words."

Stage and Cinema - Somewhat Recommended

"...Unfortunately, Ruhl’s very circumscribed memory-making motivation never quite achieves a wider reach in this purposeful but never compelling production. Boulware’s chirpy and bubbling Eurydice lacks gravitas. As her increasingly departed dad, Elias is more avuncular than paternal and Golding’s impassive Orpheus seems more pedestrian than driven. The heartbreak here (“Dip yourself in the river”) is too cerebral. But it’s palpable enough for those who need it."

ChicagoCritic - Not Recommended

"...If ever Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice is worth seeing, Promethean's current production is not the production in which to do so. Fortunately (or unfortunately), it seems to be a play that's produced with the frequency of a national crisis, when peoples' moods turn dour and the tragic resentment of their lives aches to be purged in a bath of bathos. So invest your twenty-odd bucks in a one-year CD. The answer as to "how to remember to forget" a bad production is to never have seen it at all."

Third Coast Review - Recommended

"...Director Hand manages the pace of the story well and the performances are generally fine, although Golding is a bit tentative as Orpheus in the early part of the show, in contrast to Bowlware's ebullient performance as Eurydice. Elias is serious and solicitous as Father."

Splash Magazine - Highly Recommended

"...Promethean Theatre Ensemble presents Eurydice, written by acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl and directed by Nicole Hand. This modern retelling of the classic Greek myth of Eurydice and her husband Orpheus reframes the story from the perspective of the doomed bride. Eloquent, haunting, and heartbreaking, Eurydice meditates on death, memory, loss, love, and nostalgia in one beautiful ninety-minute story."

NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...Orpheus was the greatest lover of all time, braving the underworld to retrieve his dead wife; so moved by grief, his songs made the stones weep. But who was his beloved? Eurydice was only a nymph and though nymphs were objects of many a god's desire, is there really a difference between a Daphne or a Syrinx? Laurel tree or river reed or eternity in the underworld-that's the story of a nymph. Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" asserted that love alone makes us indispensable. Sarah Ruhl's "Eurydice" argues otherwise, in a play that places the nymph's life and afterlife beyond one man or god's desire for her, wonderfully rendered by Promethean Theatre Ensemble."