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As a result, Proserpina gave him back his Eurydice on the condition that, if he wanted to keep her, he not look back at her before returning to the upper world of the living. He had almost reached his destination when he was so overwhelmed by his need to see Eurydice that he turned around. He immediately lost his lover again. He bewailed his loss for a long time and vowed never again in his life to take another woman. According to Ovid, this is the reason that he spurned each of the many who would have wed him, and persuaded other men to remain single. This caused him to become hated among women, ending at the Hebrus during the Bacchus festivities, with married women beating him with hoes and mattocks and tearing him to pieces. His head and his lyre were thrown into the Hebrus and carried all the way to Lesbos. When a snake there tried to swallow the head, it was turned to stone. But, in the Hrabanus version, the lyre was raised to the heavens and placed among the other constellations. Based on this narration of the Orpheus myth by Giovanni Boccaccio, PAN.OPTIKUM has developed a theatre spectacle which sheds light from different perspectives on the love (between Orpheus and Eurydice) in various tableaus and scenes.
Performance, acrobatics, music and staging which, as with all PAN.OPTIKUM productions, puts the audience in the centre of the action, merge to form an associative selection of pictures.
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