ARTLATE

Performance 8.30pm

Join us for the first live public performance of Orpheus and Eurydice by Ruth Barker.

Orpheus and Eurydice links the unique topography of Edinburgh's historic Old Town with the classical myth in which Orpheus descends to the Underworld.

Re-positioning the tale to Eurydice's perspective, the text shifts from one of inevitable loss to one of wrongs inflicted...

Commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival, Orpheus and Eurydice is a new site-specific recorded text - click here to download the podcast.

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Ruth Barker is a Glasgow based artist, with a predominantly text-based practice. In her performance work Barker conceives, scripts and memorises substantial literary monologues, which often draw on classical or mythopoeic narratives producing a hypnotic, claustrophobic, and cathartic performance.