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Orpheus X
Orpheus X is a music-theatre piece with original music and text by Rinde Eckert, composer, author, actor and musician; and video by Denise Marika. It draws from several sources, including the 6th century Greek poet Ibyous and the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid. Eckert and director Robert Woodruff take this ancient myth and reinvent it for our time: Orpheus is a rock star who plays electric guitar, not the lyre. In Eckert's version Orpheus is mourning the death of a poet named Eurydice who was killed by a cab in which Orpheus was riding.
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