Theater Night

During the Summer, our local Curio Theater was giving out free tickets for the Fall season, and I used mine tonight. Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl is a rendering of the Orpheus myth, and tonight's show was the first premier. I was delighted by every detail, and it went perfectly, with no seams showing, no rough edges for the players to work out.

In this picture, which I took on the sneak, Eurydice is following her husband out of the underworld, passing the stones which are chorus-characters who badger her and her dead father to forget, to not cry, and to become more completely dead in spite of their longing for life and love.

The theater space is inside the century-old Calvary Methodist Church, which has many different religious and secular activities going strong for a dozen or more years now. This is the main sanctuary where the worshiping originally was held, but some of the plaster still waits for restoration and safety nets stretch under the whole ceiling in case more of it should fall. Around the theater space are three large windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany, and those are actually worth much more than the whole building and the land it stands on.

It's things like this that make me glad I live in this neighborhood. This was a good day.