Tennessee Williams's modern version of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus Descending centers on Lady Torrance (Irene Glezos), a Sicilian immigrant disenchanted with her unhappy 20-year marriage. She runs a dry-goods store in the Deep South in the 1940s, while her bigoted, tyrannical husband (Keir Dullea) lies bedridden with cancer upstairs. When a young, guitar-toting drifter Val Xavier (Todd d'Amour) shows up at her store, Lady begins an affair that not only causes a town-wide scandal, but also, and more importantly, awakens a long-forgotten passion that brings Lady deep solace.
For director Austin Pendleton, Orpheus Descending "is a mythological play and a Christian play, and most of all, an utterly convincing evocation of small-town Mississippi in a desperate time and a beautiful, utterly original love story."
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
APRIL 23, 24, 28-30; MAY 1, 5, 10, 13, 14 @ 7 PM
APRIL 25; MAY 2, 9 @ 8 PM
MAY 7 @ 2 PM
MAY 8 @ 3 PM
