Eurydicish, Eurydice in 5 pages or less (draft 1)
2/21/2021
Daniel Brothers
Eurydicish
Characters
Stones
Eurydice
Orpheus
An Interesting man
Father
Setting
The beach and what lies below.
Orpheus: You can see the sky at night! It is filled with dots like the pinpricks on a player piano, shining through brightly on us. It sounds like beautiful music
The two lovers dance in the calming ocean waves
Eurydice: You think we should be here right now? Shouldn't we go?
Orpheus: We must! But I don't want to, I want to tie your hair into the starlight, so that you can feel the stars touch your soft head. But let's go!
He leaves quickly, eurydice trips and calls out
Eurydice: Wait! Love of my heart!
An interesting man enters
Man: Shall I help you?
Eurydice: You really shouldn't, I have a boyfriend.
Man: A boyfriend?
Eurydice: A fiance
Man: A fiance?
Eurydice: He seems to have run off
Man: Not a very good fiance.
Eurydice: No not at all.
Man: You should come swimming with me instead!
Eurydice: Oh I couldn't, I'll get my clothes wet.
Man: Do not worry, you won't feel it at all
Eurydice: The water?
Man: You won't be wet! only cool, and calm. Held on all sides. See! Feel.
He holds her hand and puts it in the water.
Eurydice: I can do that.
Man: Good! Safe journey.
She walks into the water and the lights go down
An elevator door opens up, water falling from above as Eurydice walks into the underworld. The sound of a train is heard and the stone poke out their heads
Stones: Hello! You are now drip, drip, dripped, below the ground. In the earth. Calm and quiet. You will not need your head here, for we are so calm and peaceful.
Eurydice: You are not as cool and calm as I had hoped
Stones: You will not need your hope here
The stones roll off stage
Eurydice: Well ok then
The Father enters
Father: Hello? Who are you?
Eurydice: Dad?
Father: Eurydice!
Eurydice: How, do you remember me?
Father: I have held onto your name.
They embrace, you see Orpheus on a dock
Orpheus: My words are full of flowers, but they are black for I am sad. I will find my love, for my song is that beautiful, now that I have it written and the skill to play it. The sadness to make it sing, to open the door to the depths of the darkness wherein my Eurydice lies.
The following is a scene where the father builds a house out of string for his daughter. She sits in it. This can take some time.
Eurydice: Do we have anything to read?
Father: What can we do but sit and talk.
Stones: You have done too much already! You have built a house? You have talked of books and the past? There is no Past, only stone and drip and cold. Forget your past and embrace your future.
Father: I will pass, so long as my daughter is here
Orpheus enters
Orpheus: Hey Eurydice! I sang a song, and the door opened up and I can bring you home!
Eurydice: I love you dad, but I have to go!
Father: Ok.
Orpheus and Eurydice exit
Stones: So, do you have any questions now?
Father: Just with the water?
Stones: Yes and you will embrace your future, and become stone like us
Father: Whew. Ok then
Father pours water on himself and lies down like a stone. Shift scene to Orpheus and Eurydice who have been blocked by the man
Man: You can not take her.
Orpheus: You said that I could!
Man: But you had to make your way from the underworld and not look at her face
Eurydice: But he didn't
Orpheus:(looking back at her) Yeah!
Man: Hate to see it folks
Orpheus: What?
The man slams orpheus into the elevator and slaps the up button.
Man: Go on back to your little house of string now, see what is left for you there
Eurydice rushes back to the house to find her father, now a stone
Stone: You know what you are going to do now!
Eurydice touches her fathers face, and then goes to the water and douses herself as well. The Man Rides a tricycle in the background as she turns to stone
End