Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice retells the Orpheus myth from Eurydice's perspective, focusing on her death on her wedding day, her arrival in the underworld, and her reunion with her father, creating a poignant story about love, memory, loss, and language, with a pivotal moment where Eurydice calls for Orpheus to look back, leading to her permanent separation from him in the underworld.

The play explores themes of communication and the power of words through Eurydice's struggle to regain language in the dead world, choosing her father and past over a husband she barely remembers.