Orfee is returning home from war. The village is being decorated with bunting, and the "welcome home" banner has been raised. The band is playing, the choir singing and the vicar is handing out cake. But celebration turns to tragedy when Orfee's wife, Eurydice, is killed in a terrible accident.
Refusing to accept his wife's fate, and believing that love is stronger than death, Orfee sets off into the Underworld to find his lover and bring her back from Hades, Lord of Death, who owns all and returns nothing.

And we are going with him........

The return of Wildworks' site-specific promenade show inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is well worth celebrating. It's a work of wonder and integrity that uses a choir as a Greek chorus and which is so open that it demands that the audience bring their own grief. Wildworks shows are always grounded in the community in which it is made and these shows on a disused mining site should be a moving reminder of a disappeared way of life that cannot be brought back from the dead and the importance of rituals in learning to say goodbye.
Lyn Gardner, July 2007, The Guardian Preview.

This production seems to cry out to the hills, to find a way of saying goodbye that offers solace. Full of images that linger long after you leave, and shot through with tenderness, humanity and unexpected comedy, this is unmissable, immensely cheering theatre about some of the saddest corners of life.
Elisabeth Mahoney, Wednesday July 18th, 2007 The Guardian *****

In 2006 WildWorks started a journey with Souterrain which involved partnerships and performances in six very different communities which included Brighton, Hastings, Bethune, Amiens and Colchester.
Now we continue that journey.
We have just re-told the story of Souterrain in Sotteville-en-Rouen, France, June 2007. 

Now we are proud to be telling this story at home in Cornwall.
At each venue we have brought the show to life in a new way, working with new volunteers, adding new skills, narrative and meaning to the existing work.

So far we have worked with ballroom dancers in Hastings, young bikers in Gosnay and a gospel choir in Amiens,
We have performed Souterrain to great acclaim in five different underworlds;
A village, a school, a convent, a citadel and a dept. store.

We are creating a new relationship between audience and performer.

Souterrain was commissioned by Mercury Theatre Colchester, Zap arts and the PECA organisation.