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Being anti-death penalty is literally the easiest stance ever. People just say "but should the state kill THIS type of person?" and you just say "no". Not killing people is so fucking easy actually

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Never expected Hey Little Songbird to be the highlight of a Hadestown visit, but here we are!

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what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

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maybe.

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Lettering Emily Dickinson poem by Fluffy-Gap-7297 on reddit.

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#kicking ass with mama

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my favourite moment of hadestown (amsterdam): after orpheus' toast in livin' it up on top when they all took a drink, everyone gagged, expressing how bad the drink was

meanwhile hermes (maarten heijmans) remarked, in dutch, "dit is echt heel goor, jongens" ("this is really gross, guys")

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The principal cast of Hadestown (Amsterdam)

Jeangu Macrooy- Orpheus

Sara Afiba-Eurydice

Joy Wielkins-Persephone

Edwin Jonker-Hades

Claudia de Breij and Maarten Heijmans- Hermes (they will both alternate between the role during the shows run)

April Darby, Aïcha Gill and Joni Ayton-Ken- the fates

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I'm not gonna share my whole Hadestown Amsterdam cast portrayal analysis on here cause I went on for longer than I meant to.

But I will try and solely talk about one point I have on Hades.

Usually when talking about Hadestown I don't think of Hades as a villain, antagonist yes but if I were to label anyone as the villain it'd be the Fates.

Edwin Jonker's Hades though? That's a villain.

And like, one we see in real life too.

He wasn't simply jaded, or scared, or lonely.

He kept doubling down that hope would get you nowhere and work and money was the only thing worth anything.

Pair that with his hand gestures mimicking a certain US President (Shout out to one of the girls I befriended after the show who pointed this out, I would not be surprised if at least one of you see this, I was the English one) and it's literally just straight up the type of person who's actively causing harm in real life.

I adore Hadestown, I get to see the new London cast finally in three days, the character analysis each new person playing the role brings is so amazing.

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Never expected Hey Little Songbird to be the highlight of a Hadestown visit, but here we are!

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Cast of Hadestown (Amsterdam) at Koninklijk Theater Carré

Sara Afiba as Eurydice

Jeangu Macrooy as Orpheus

Claudia de Breij & Maarten Heijmans as Hermes

Edwin Jonker as Hades

Joy Wielkens as Persephone

April Darby, Aïcha Gill & Joni Ayton-Ken as the fates

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Singing la la la la la la la

Hadestown, Amsterdam (2025) ↳ Edwin Jonker and Joy Wielkens

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And brother you know what they did? They danced.

Hadestown, Amsterdam (2025) ↳ Edwin Jonker and Joy Wielkens

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We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

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My lord I need you to make up your mind, where the fuck are we going