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Need some Hadestown costume references for drawing (or cosplay) ?? Here you go 🌹

Persephone’s Act 1 dress is green, while her Act 2 dress is black. They are the same in every way, except they’re just different colors. Instead of having her hair down with red flowers as she has in Act 1, her hair in Act 2 is in a snood and she wears a different hairpiece with black flowers.

On top of her Act 1 dress, she wears a white fur coat with a green gradient. She first wears this when she comes back to the surface in “Livin’ It Up On Top.” It is then taken off by Orpheus and hung to the side on a hook until “Way Down Hadestown,” where the ensemble puts it back on her as Hades makes his entrance. She takes it off again in the beginning of “Chant I.”

Persephone wears her silver wedding ring on her left hand, fourth finger, matching Hades’s. Her current flask is the rounder one with the hole in the center (the rectangular one was the one she used in the past before they switched it up). She also has a plain straw fan she occasionally fans herself with.

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Broadway Refs >> Orpheus | Eurydice | Persephone | Hades | Hermes | Fates | Ensemble / Workers

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

"I review books for a living, and I’ve noticed a worrying trend of what I call “instagramming the Holocaust.” (1 / 9)"

"Bestselling novels about the Holocaust tend to be “uplifting” and sentimental. They have romantic subplots. Jewish characters only exist to be rescued by the (often American) protagonist. The cinematic, three-act structure culminates in a redemptive ending."

"What these books offer (and they sell in the millions) is a sanitized version of the Shoah in which brave Americans bravely battle Hitler, the reader learns a lesson about Kindness and Not Being Prejudiced, and there are no sticky questions about who did the killings, and why."

"Jewish novelist Dara Horn has observed that memoirs and novels written by actual Holocaust survivors typically don’t sell—because there are no pat resolutions, no redemptions, no heartwarming moments where the Jewish prisoners see the good in their Nazi captors."

"Anne Frank’s (excellent) diary became the entry point into the Holocaust for most of us because she had not yet experienced the worst of it – because she hadn’t yet learned that some people aren’t “truly good at heart.” It’s just safe enough not to disturb us."

"And we love “uplifting” Holocaust novels because we don’t want to be disturbed, not really. This is the real reason why books like Maus offend the sensibilities of middle-class parents, because they bear witness to a truth about human nature that we don’t want to confront."

"And the “message” of the Holocaust is not that people are truly good, or that we need to be kind and tolerant (though that is true). The message is that six million people were murdered, and millions of ordinary folk were complicit, and millions of others looked away."

"This compulsion to sanitize the past, to sanitize the world, is one of the overlooked roots of white nationalism. We want to seal ourselves away from the experiences of others because we fear what they might say to us. We want reality to be pastel-hued and instagram-filtered."