Plot
The play begins with Eurydice and Orpheus, two young lovers, who are about to get married. During their wedding, Eurydice goes outside to get a drink of water and she meets a man who claims to have a letter from her father. Eurydice decides to go to his apartment to retrieve the letter, but as she leaves down the stairs she trips and dies. She enters the Underworld, where she meets her father, who tries to reteach Eurydice about her past since she has lost her memory. Towards the end of the play, Orpheus arrives to save her and Eurydice is faced with the decision to either stay with her father or go back with her husband.
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