“It’s done in Texas, in competitions and in places that other of my plays couldn’t be done.”Typical Ruhl. She started the play as a graduate student in playwriting at Brown University, where she also did her undergraduate work. “Of all my plays, ‘Eurydice’ is the closest to poetry, where I started,” she said. “It’s almost a bridge between when I started writing poetry and when I started writing plays.”Sarah Ruhl, photographed this month at home in Brooklyn. (Rick Loomis / For The Times)“Of all my plays, ‘Eurydice’ is the closest to poetry, where I started.” Sarah RuhlThe lyricism of the work has made the adaptation seem natural.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2020 15:00 UTC