#HI PATRICK PAGE HOW DAREY OU HURT ME WITH THESE FEELINGS

[drcrushers]

“What the character wants most in the world will tell you what the character wants most in life. For me, what Hades wants most in the world is to have Persephone back, to have her full love, and everything I do is based on my love for her. With what I build in Hadestown and trying to create down there, I’m trying to impress her. When I seduce Eurydice, I’m trying to make her jealous; when I’m trying to destroy Orpheus, I’m vanquishing a much younger, more attractive potential rival for her, the fact that she even cares about him, as opposed to siding with me is something that is very hard as Hades to deal with, so I have to destroy him. The demonstration of my power over a younger rival will make me more attractive, and of course it's exactly the opposite of what Persephone wants. But that's where I come from, until the moment when he reminds me that there was a time I wasn't armored.

“I really have tried to imagine very deeply what it is to be in love with a woman who—and not just in love, I'm talking about Cryano-Roxane in love, I'm talking about Romeo and Juliet in love, I'm talking about a kind of classical love—so in love with someone who leaves for six months of the year, who has something that's that important to her that she would just leave. I want to be with her every moment, the fact that she wants to be somewhere else for six months of the year, I can't [handle it].

“Orpheus and Hades are mirror images of each other in a lot of ways, and Orpheus has a line in the show where he says, ‘Who am I that I should get to hold you?’ and I feel that's how Hades feels about Persephone: I don't deserve you. I live with this deep-seated insecurity at all times, which is what drives all my behavior.”