PCS Continues its Second Stage Season With EURYDICE, Opens 3/4

The Players Club of Swarthmore Theater continues its Second Stage season with a modern retelling of an ancient Greek myth. Eurydice opens March 4th.

It's a story of boundless love. Orpheus has the gift of song - so powerful that even wild animals are entranced when he sings and plays. When his bride, Eurydice, dies on their wedding day - he travels to the underworld and uses his song to persuade Pluto to release his love. That's the traditional angle the story takes; but this play tells the tale from Eurydice's perspective. Whereas Orpheus is a musician, Eurydice is a thinker - so seeing the story from her intellectual point of view is fresh and new.

Director Brian Boland of Rose Valley says, "When I first read this play, I was struck by the lyrical and poetic quality of the language. This is not the classical telling of a Greek tragedy. It is modern in its language and modern in its sensibilities."

Boland put the show together with some talented help from around the area: Roni Cibischino of Folcroft, Polly Edelstein and Katherine Perry of Philadelphia, Dani Lencioni of Havertown, Josiah Donnell of Boothwyn, Jim Fryer of Lansdowne and Kevin Doerr of Westtown.

Eurydice performs on The Players Club of Swarthmore's Raymond W. Smith Second Stage: March 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19. All performances start at 8:00pm and admission is $10 at the door.

The Players Club of Swarthmore is celebrating its 100th season. The theater is located at 614 Fairview Road, just off of route 320, only minutes from I-95 and Route 476. There is plenty of free off-street parking. For those taking public transit, the R3 Regional Rail line is less than a mile from The Players Club, at the edge of the Swarthmore College Campus.

For more information about PCS, their Second Stage and Main Stage offerings, visit: www.pcstheater.org.