Eurydice's Dream

“Blessed Unrest's original creation Eurydice's Dream is a powerful abstract journey. There is far more dance, emotion, movement and skin onstage than text. I love the physical ingenuity and visual artistry of this company’s work, and this show lived up to my high expectations.

“The physical energy onstage is incredible. There are always bodies moving in creative and captivating ways. It's deliciously overwhelming to try to take it all in.

“Perhaps the biggest reason to see this play is to behold how strong each member of the ensemble is individually and how bravely they work together. Their bodies are ridiculously dexterous and they deftly handle each other's bodies like magical extensions of their own.

“…I also respect how much director Jessica Burr trusted the abstractness of the piece and just went there without handholding or apology. It's exciting to see a theater company just trust their audience and throw out a challenge like that. It's also, most basically, a dream play. I think that was the most enjoyable aspect of the whole thing for me. It is a unique experience to be let into the non-literal dream-world of these mythical characters, and once there, to be allowed to share the beauty and pain of their dreams.”

~ Heather Lee Rogers, nytheatre.com

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“It's tremendously impressive. …from beginning to end one never wants to stop looking—even blinking at Eurydice's Dream seems a nuisance.

“It's to the choreographer's credit that much happens at once in Eurydice's Dream but one can take it all in—there are no conflicts about ‘where to look’ as in a multi-ring circus, it's all there for you as if it's all a part of you.

“…Eurydice's Dream is tone perfect in its vision is of impermanence and transition as fundamental features of love and life. It's filled with transformations and yet holds on to its story line. Ovid, the famous teller of the classical myths in his Metamorphoses—transformations of form and being—would love it.”

~ Yvonne Korshak, Let's Talk off-Broadway

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“The show moved me, it took me on a journey, allowing me to take and interpret the story in my own way. I felt like an excited puppy, finding all these new trails to follow, stimulated by all the actors, who were enthralling to watch. Such commitment, energy, and strength, physical and mental. An amazing night of theatre, thank you!”

~ Rachel Jane Conn, audience member

“I loved the intensity, the style, the emotion and the heat. So much human emotion. Real interactions in mythic settings. You brought it all together in an eye popping, room filling, excitement filled work. I was honored to be there.”

~ Tom Mallon, audience member