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Gods and Monsters: Eurydice and Bowl EP

Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play is lush with language; Nazareth Hassan’s play plunks a skate park and a demon down among the theatergoers.

She’s written instructions for “a raining elevator” that transports characters to the underworld, which is here rendered by Scott Bradley like it’s the entrance to an abandoned Mediterranean resort, with mosaic tiling made up of the letters Eurydice’s father tried to send to her. Waters, Bradley, and costume designer Oana Botez have settled on an aesthetic like an abandoned town in a de Chirico painting, with the talking stones (Maria Elena Ramirez, Jon Norman Schneider, and David Ryan Smith) dressed as clowns that might be on the way to perform commedia dell’arte. But then, Hassan unleashes what’s lurking within Quentavius — quite literally during an acid trip, a demonic embodiment of intimacy, itself played by Felicia Curry and known as “Lemon Pepper Wings,” storms onto the stage in an outfit that’s like the most menacing cosplay imaginable.

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