Revisited Classic

Eurydice

BY SARAH RUHL.

DIRECTED BY STELLA POWELL-JONES.

3 October -
9 November 2024

Overview

“Love is a big, funny word”

Welcome to the Underworld. Meet a chorus of stones, a tiny tyrant on a hobby horse, and a river that makes you forget your own name. Will our heroine Eurydice be doomed to an eternity in this topsy-turvy land of the dead? Or can she follow her lover’s song back to life?

Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl and Artistic Director Stella Powell-Jones reunite at Jermyn Street Theatre this autumn. Refocusing the classic myth on its heroine, this is a witty and inventive fresh look on a timeless love story that asks what happens when we die, and what happens when we live.

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Eurydice is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

People

Katy Brittain
Stone

Katy has performed prolifically at the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as on the West End and at theatres across the UK. She has also been seen in television dramas on ITV and films from Brown Girl Productions.

Keaton Guimarães-Tolley
Orpheus

Keaton Guimarães-Tolley trained at RADA and École Philippe Gaulier. Also a writer, musician, and clown, he debuted his solo show, Francisco de Nata, at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Tom Morley
Stone

Tom is a British actor based in London. Raised in Gloucestershire, Tom moved to London to study acting at Drama Centre and LAMDA. Since then he has acted in feature films, television drama and theatres in London and across the UK.

Eve Ponsonby
Eurydice

Eve has acted in feature films, television drama and theatres on the West End and across the UK. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.

Leyon Stolz-Hunter
Stone

Leyon trained at National Youth Theatre, Identity Drama School and Unseen Drama School and studied Drama and Film at Anglia Ruskin. Alongside his theatre work, he has appeared in the award-winning short film, Sadhbh, alongside Laura Whitmore.

Dickon Tyrrell
Father

Dickon trained at Liverpool University, National Youth Theatre and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is a faculty member of education at Shakespeare’s Globe. He teaches and directs at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and LAMDA. He performs regularly with Elizabeth Kenny’s Theatre of the Ayre. Dickon is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Joe Wiltshire Smith
A Nasty Interesting Man/The Lord of the Underworld

Joe is a Welsh actor who graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2017. He represented RWCMD at the Sam Wanamaker Festival in his second year, and received the J.O Francis Memorial Award in 2017 and the Gareth Jones Scholarship in 2016. He has since performed in theatres across the UK.

Sarah Ruhl
Writer

Stella Powell-Jones
Director

Elliot Pritchard
Associate Director & Movement Director

Tina Torbey
Set Designer

Emily Stuart
Costume Designer

Chris McDonnell
Lighting Designer

Carmel Smickersgill
Sound Designer

Marc Frankum
Casting Director

Pauline McGrath
Assistant Set Designer

Lisa Cochrane
Stage Manager