About the Show
"How do you say goodbye to yourself?"
In Sarah Ruhl’s imaginative retelling of the classic myth, the story is finally told through the eyes of its heroine. Dying unexpectedly on her wedding day, Eurydice descends into an Underworld more theatrical playground than hellscape. Stripped of her memories and language, and policed by a Chorus of Stones, she reunites with her deceased Father, who tenderly helps her reconstruct her past. But when her husband, Orpheus, plays music beautiful enough to open the gates of hell to rescue her, Eurydice faces a devastating choice: follow the man she married back to a world she doesn’t quite understand, or remain in the safe, familiar embrace of her father in the land of the dead.
Leaning into the influences of Samuel Beckett, Songs of the Goat presents a visceral, ensemble driven production that strips away classical tropes to ask timeless questions about grief, love, and the enduring power of memory.
