How Long? How Long? How Long?

hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.

hadestown aus saying the walk was three years was like one of those cases where it's like. neat but i am not incorporating that into my belief system

the craziest staging in hadestown will forever be eurydice running after orpheus in chant and him NOT turning around and that being the issue. he doesn’t see her!!! the reason she goes to hadestown is BECAUSE he doesn’t turn around!!! it’s an old song it’s a tragedy!!!!!!

like i need to elaborate. act one orpheus loses eurydice BECAUSE he trusts too much in his song, in himself, in them. he puts it all in his song and expects her to always be there, even when he doesnt see her. act two orpheus loses her because he DOESN’T trust his song, himself, in them. if he still trusted in his song, he would trust that hades would have let them go. and he doesn’t believe she’ll always be there, even when he can’t see her. HADESTOWN THE MASTERPIECE YOU ARE