Orpheus X
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Opened Dec 3, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009
Opened Dec 3, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009
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Orpheus is a rock star, an idol who amazes all not with a legendary lyre but with an electric guitar. Unlike the hero of the source material, he's mourning not the death of his wife but that of a total stranger -- a poet named Eurydice -- who dies in his arms after being struck by a cab in which Orpheus was riding. This fluke of fate shatters his splendid life. Suddenly burdened by this strange loss, he becomes obsessed with Eurydice's memory. Unable to comprehend or cope, he shuts himself off from a life that once gave him glory, riches and a semblance of meaning.
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The lines between this world and the next, reality and fantasy, and music theater and art installation are all often hypnotically blurred in Rinde Eckert's intoxicating Orpheus X, now being presented by Theatre for a New Audience at the Duke on 42nd Street.
Eckert's revision to the Greek myth unfolds in a modern-day metropolis, where internationally renowned rock star Orpheus (Eckert) has put an end to his career after witnessing a stranger, Eurydice (Suzan Hanson), being fatally struck by a taxi. In the living world, Orpheus' manager (John Kelly) attempts to pull his client back to work and a sense of normalcy. Meanwhile, in the afterworld, Persephone (also played by Kelly, who wisely ne[...]