Our Eurydice, aesthetically, found itself heavily stylized and influenced by a picturesque 1950s Americana and the depression of the 1930s with the same touches of whimsy that the original Greek myth evokes in its audiences. 

 

Exploring the characters' relationships with each other, the aesthetics, and the different worlds they walk through was a journey all while navigating COVID protocols and keeping both our audiences and our actors safe. 

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Masking our actors allowed them to have closer, more intimate moments with the audience but simultaneously cut the audience off from half of the actor's expressions. During this production, it was important to me to make the masks intentional and have meaning on the characters and in the world we were creating. Ultimately, the team and I decided the masks would be used when the characters would be in the underworld. It represented the part of yourself that would be lost when you travel to the underworld and helped to separate the world of the living from the dead all while solving the practical need for making the COVID-safe playing space much larger.