"You have to speak the language of stones."

People have a morbid curiosity about death; part of the fascination with death is the great unknown. What happens when we die? Is there a light? Is there a calm? Is there... Elvis? It seems nobody knows what happens when we die because, well, we're dead.

In the traditional story of Orpheus and Eurydice, we follow Oprheus' journey toward the unknown as he travels to the underworld to, ultimately unsuccessfully, bring back to life his true love. In this story, we learn what Eurydice encounters in the underworld as if she were an ethereal Alice in Wonderland. Except in this story she is thrown down the proverbial rabbit hole without a potion to shrink her down or a piece of cake to make her big again. Author Sarah Ruhl takes Eurydice to a world filled with "high pitched humming sounds" where conversations are held in the "language of stones."

We examine the underworld as a strange place where people are made to lose memories of their mortal life by riding an elevator that rains with the water of forgetfulness. Moreover, audiences are made to think about how all this death-stuff could relate to their own lives.

Many of us in the cast had costume fittings this week, which is always an amazing chance to fit together more pieces of the rehearsal puzzle. The clothes are nothing short of beautiful and are sure to become characters themselves, as will the sound design and the set. Costumer Brenda Van Der Weil wonderfully meshes real with surreal to make us look outstanding, and today it was exciting to try on that which always seems to propel cast members into a higher state of readiness for opening night.

Get your tickets now, otherwise we might have to dunk you in the river.