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I saw Hadestown in my dream last night.

There were no seats and no stage. Instead the show was on the floor of a huge, old, abandoned warehouse. You either sat on the floor along the walls— nearly at the feet of the actors— or watched from high above on a scaffold higher than Hades’ balcony. The audience was either part of the set or completely separated from it. It was a huge warehouse. It felt tiny and intimate. It felt cold and colossal. It smelled like rust and smoke. 

During the intermission you could go get a drink from Persephone. 

There were these big metal pieces everywhere— industrial scrap I guess— that resonated with Orpheus and the Fates’ voices as they sang. Somehow the music reverberated through the warehouse as if it were empty. The rocks and stones echoing his song. The audience was allowed to sing the la la la las with them and it seemed like his voice had multiplied exponentially, coming from every angle and corner. It was transcendent.

Doubt Comes In especially. The Fates  sounded like wind and water and Orpheus sounds so small compared to them .

It was almost pitch-black in the warehouse when Orpheus opened a door. Out of the warehouse, out of the Underworld. A tiny rectangle of daylight and sky and birdsong as Eurydice sings about the darkest night. He was about to take a step outside, to leave, and maybe it would turn out this ti—

He turned around. Everyone was gutted.

In other productions of Hadestown I’ve seen, a few people have gasped, some have gotten teary. Here we were openly weeping, sobbing. I saw a few folks so overwhelmed they walked out.

The set was old and rough and falling apart. The music was the most amazing experience of my entire life.

I woke up.

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love characters who are like "this is how the world works. this is how it has to be (because if i'm wrong i have to face what i've done // if i'm wrong i have to face whats been done to me) "

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The cast of Hadestown at Citadel Theatre (Edmonton)

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eurydice doodles + misc?

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I saw Hadestown recently and... the metanarrative aspects didn't need to go that hard. The entire cyclical structure with the story being acknowledged as an "old tale from way back when" that they tell again and again despite knowing the tragic ending, which is explored as precious proof of the enduring ability to hope? Orpheus and Eurydice falling in love so fast because they feel that they already know each other, they always have, and we know they're right? Hermes fluidly switching between character who emotionally invests in the doomed lovers and omniscient narrator who knows they're doomed, and the revelation in "Road to Hell (Reprise)" that he's genuinely been both from the beginning? The final song, a requiem for the living by the dead, with the cast out of character after the curtain call? When Orpheus toasts to "the world we dream about" but then also "the one we live in now" and everyone on stage looks straight at the audience for a moment of absolutely chilling silence? I was not prepared and I'm not okay.

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FUCK

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Hadestown Acrylic Stand!

I'll have these available at the Sakura Con Artist Alley for anyone in the Seattle area! I'll be at table 2542 in 4EF in the old convention center building, tabling for Raise it Up Studio. Come say hi!

These will be very limited stock so please come early if you want to get one!

I will also have my Orpheus and Eurydice art as a print for sale in a large and small size

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Hadesphone again

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flowers

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“kiiiiiind of makes you wonder how it feeeeeeels….”

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What if when Orpheus calls Hades “king of shades” he’s actually referencing Hades’s insane sunglasses collection.

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Hadestown (2017, Off-Broadway) - Digital Booklet Pics

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hadestowns

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i love you art books i love you actor and director audio commentaries i love you concept art i love you deleted scenes i love you little details in storyboards that didn’t make it in i love you outtakes i love you actors and people who worked on things that are excited and proud of what they did

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hadestown fanart? from me? predictable

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I love you music that's amateur and broken and vaguely shitty. I love you singers who are off-key and I love you voice cracks. I love you missed chords and guitar string squeaks and the background sounds of wherever you recorded. I love you emotions that had to be expressed, even though they're bigger than the limits of the medium. I love you musicians who had to create even before they learned everything to make something good, musicians who release demos and first-ever songs and record on bad equipment because there is something they have to say to the world, even if no one ever listens. I love you punk rock and garage bands and DIY movements and cheap second hand guitars and recording on someone's laptop because you already had it. I love you sound cloud and band camp and 10 listeners on Spotify. I love you music.