From: Beowulf Alley Theatre Company [mailto:beowulfalley@beowulfalley.pmailus.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 7:01 PM
Subject: Don't Miss Out on This Weekend's Performances!
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company
Concerts at the Alley Presents
- One Night Only -
January 30, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Tickets - $12 up to a day in advance of the performance; $15 at the door
Purchase tickets on our website or call (520) 882-0555.
For more information, call the box office at (520) 882-0555.
Named the 2007 “Up & Coming Artist of the Year” at the Tucson Area Music Awards (TAMMIES), Norgaard “first recognized the power of music transcending language - and rhythm and beat bringing the community together” when she volunteered to work with a doctor and nurse team in a remote village in the Dominican Republic. It didn’t matter that she knew little Spanish. Norgaard eventually captured-in-song the stories of indigenous people she met in Bethel, in Alaska’s southwest bush region and while working as a community health nurse involved in public health education in the prison system, and in an HIV peer education program for kids. Described as “the love child of Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant and Melissa Etheridge”, she births and sings songs about everything that moves her - be it the ravages of PTSD and homelessness in “Hell Town” veterans, or passion itself in “Overtaken”. (Excerpts taken from Tucson Green Times)
“One of Tucson’s great musical trailblazers…” Tucson Lifestyle Magazine
“…the emotions are heartfelt, delivered with a quiet passion and authenticity.” Tucson Weekly
“Her lyrics don't paint a picture, they grab your arm."
The Iowa Entertainer
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company
Main Stage Season presents
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Lydia Borowicz
The cast includes Bill Epstein, Nicholas Gallardo, Lucas Gonzales, Joi Marie Johnson, Allison Rose, Kristina (Miranda) Sloan, and David Swisher.
Performances run through February 6, 2011, Thursdays - Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2:30 p.m.
"... [Beowulf Alley's production of Eurydice] may be one of the most inventive and magical productions in Tucson this season." Nathan Christensen, TUCSON WEEKLY
In Sarah Ruhl's contemporary play, we meet the lovers, Orpheus and Eurydice, just before their wedding day and experience this Greek myth from Ruhl's imagination of what may have been Eurydice's journey, meeting some of the characters she encounters in the Underworld and the choice she makes in the name of love.
In Greek mythology, Orpheus was the son of the Olympian god, Apollo, and the muse, Calliope, and the greatest musician in the world; one strum of his lyre, one note sung, and people would follow him about, beasts would crawl to him, and trees would tear their roots from the earth to follow him and listen to his beautiful music. In the Greek myth, we learn of the love story from Orpheus' perspective.
One day, Orpheus met Eurydice and they fell deeply in love. They were married and lived happily together until one day, Eurydice stepped on a poisonous snake, was instantly killed and she was taken to the Underworld.
Inconsolable, Orpheus decided to go to the underworld and ask Hades to return Eurydice to him. With the help of his soothing music, he softened the heart of Hades who gave Orpheus permission to bring Eurydice back to the surface of the earth. There was only one condition--Orpheus was not to look back as he ascended. He was to trust that Eurydice was immediately behind him. As they reached the light, to reenter the world, Orpheus glanced back at her, and she was instantly borne away, back to the underworld.
Orpheus tried to return to the underworld, to bring her back once more, but Hades was unrelenting. Orpheus mourned the loss of Eurydice, and spurned the advances of every other woman.
Purchase tickets on our website or call (520) 882-0555. Prices range from $18-$23 with some discounts available on online. Cash Only, $12 Rush Tickets are available 5-15 minutes before curtain at each performance for students, military, and seniors 60+, based on seating availability.
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