BRUNSWICK — The Theater Project, in collaboration with CHANS Hospice Care Program, will present “Eurydice,” a play based on the familiar Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

The play by Sarah Ruhl will be presentged from Oct. 26 through Nov. 11 at the theater at 14 School St.

Orpheus, who can charm even the gods with his exquisite music, plays his way to the underworld to release his wife, Eurydice, from death. He is granted permission to bring her back to the world of the living with the proviso that he not look back as she follows him out, but he does, thus losing her forever.

The story, which has inspired numerous works of opera, poetry, movies and dance is re-imagined in Ruhl’s telling from the prospective of the deceased bride. As Eurydice yearns for both her living husband and her dead father, the audience is moved to contemplate essential themes of love, separation, remembrance, grief, comfort and death.

“The play appeals to me in so many ways. It is musical, poetic and painterly —  very real and very magical. Somehow both abstract and detailed, funny and sad, mythic and spare. It has lightness and gravity,” director Christopher Price said.

“It is, I feel, these juxtapositions and apparent contradictions that give the play a profound elementalism and emotional honesty,” he said. “This is an exploration of mortality told with extraordinary artistry, humor, poignancy and grace.”

CHANS is an affiliate of Mid Coast Health Services. For more information, call 729-6782 or visit their website www.chanshomehealthcare.com.

“Eurydice” will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. All tickets are pay what you want, with a suggested price of $18. For tickets, call 729-8584, log on to www.theaterproject.com or visit the theater.