#anaïs mitchell

[lilsciencequeen]

Thinking about in Hadestown how it is highly like Orpheus walked for days/weeks to get to Eurydice.

With the idea of the train taking people to Hadestown and Hermes saying "Through the underground, under cover of night Layin' low, stayin' out of sight" implies that he could only do the walk at night. If this was a walk that took a few hours at most then why would it be mentioned. Orpheus at the beginning of act 2 looks exhausted. His clothes are ripped but he is absolutely overjoyed he has made it. That he's there. Walking into Hell is not an easy task and hes done it.

Which makes Doubt Comes In even more painful. If it takes a number of days or weeks for this walk and they have to keep walking then hes spending hours upon hours not being able to check that Eurydice is behind him and having The Fates cast doubt that she's not there. That he's not worthy. Anyone would turn around after being subjected to that.

[19th-century-gay-german-teens]

Anyone else wake up at 2pm and immediately think “I should map out the changes to Epic III between Broadway and the West End” ?

No, just me?

Anyway, I listened to both (and in particular read the lyrics to the Broadway version while listening to Dónal Finn singing), and here is the change to the ending.

[cloudyfacewithjam]

Anaïs Mitchell and Dónal Finn perform 'Wedding Song' from Hadestown

[thebrainofmae]

thinking about how hadestown said No answer will be heard to the question no one asks, so I’m asking if it’s true [what they say], and how black sails said If no one remembers a time before there was an England, then no one can imagine a time after it and how Ursula Le Guin said We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings and how fat ham said We just gotta…uh…commit./Why though?/Cause this is a tragedy. We tragic./I’m not and how hadestown said the kingdom will fall for a song and how black sails said They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true and most of all how Hadestown said It’s a tragedy. But we sing it anyway.

[slippy-socks]

hey baby, am i coming through?

cosmic american, anaïs mitchell

[pristina-nomine]

I love Anaïs Mitchell, fifteen years from now and she’ll still be writing new lyrics for Hadestown (x)

[lonelylittledot]

Hermes: And Hades and Persephone, they took each other's hands – and brother, you know what they did?

Me, sobbing: tHeY dANcEd

[spacetrashpile]

SO WERE ANY OF YOU GONNA TELL ME ABOUT THE 2007 PRODUCTION OF HADESTOWN WITH AN INSANE STAGING AND A BUTCH CERBERUS OR WAS I GONNA HAVE TO DISCOVER THAT MYSELF

[doyouknowthismusical]

[fiddlepickdouglas]

via Gaia Music Collective

[thesweetnessofspring]

Working on a Song by Anaïs Mitchell - an alternative introduction to Epic I.

[a-ramblinrose]

“But looking back on these old drafts and even the orphans, I see that writing is more like gardening. You're raking around in the dirt, pulling up weeds. Flowers you love and find beautiful die on you. But not for nothing; they go back into the soil, and they nourish it. It’s the act of raking that prepares the ground, and it’s the seeds of those dead beautiful flowers that replant themselves in it and eventually come up right. The “right” thing could not exist without the “wrong” ones. ”

― Anaïs Mitchell, Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown

[thebrainofmae]

These three are constantly in the back of my mind doing cheerleader pyramid flips

[attheendoftheline]

Myth

Ovid is the only acceptable version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. End of story (I’m serious though most others are ‘love is stupid he deserved it because love is dumb’). I’m posting it here instead of my main blog because… I get the vibe Anaïs read this version. Something about how lyrical it is, how we get the full song he signs to hades and Persephone and how fucking soul crushing it is? She must have read this one.

ALSO

There is a separate myth “the death of Orpheus” which, is absolutely. My heart cannot take it.

He’s the first to say they found each other in the end 😭

[lilsciencequeen]

Thinking about how Hadestown is yes, a tragedy but also an important story in the idea of trying again and again because even though you may fail, if you keep trying again and again one day the story will be different.

One day it won't end in tragedy.