The Human Condition In Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice '

Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice deals with themes of the human condition. Ruhl crosses a wide spectrum of all things that make us human, including mortality, suffering, fear, ignorance, nativity, creativity, and familial and romantic love. My goal in the staging of this scene is to wake up these aspects of the human condition for each audience member individual. These experiences are universal, although there are a million different ways to experience each one. My staging will take the audience through each aspect, even if they themselves cannot pinpoint exactly the sensation they are experiencing in a given moment. The world needs to be so immersive and alive that spectators can go through the emotional and physical processes of experiences. There is no looking straight ahead and having text recited to you. In my scoring and staging of the Second Movement, Scene 4 of Ruhl's Eurydice one of the most important thing I wanted to convey was the structure and mood of the underworld. I wanted it to have aspects of fantasy and danger, while remaining something mundane …show more content…
It makes for a more organized experience in the rehearsal process and allows actors to take liberties with their body and the way it exists in a space. It also ensures that the visual art of the performance is not lost in the subtlety of interpreted meaning and textual analysis. For me, it comes back full circle to viewing a text as a world and considering all of those aspects that might seem little but have a large impact on aspects of a scenario. However, viewpoints is not exactly what comes most natural to me. That is why it was important to me to pick a scene that was mostly stage direction rather than dialogue. So I could delve into the method of viewpoints more thoroughly and not get distracted by character's thought processes and text. I wanted to focus on the physical bodies of the characters rather than just their minds, mouths and