Art

I love u for this btw

Despite being a tragedy, Hadestown as a piece of theater leaves an audience member with a distinct, bittersweet human hope. This hope comes from Hadestown’s art form as Theater. If Hadestown were primarily experienced as a movie or book, there would be a solidifying of the narrative and possibly, the dissolving of its message of hope. Yet, as productions, directors, performers, musicians, stage techs — as people come and go to tell this story to a hungry audience, the pattern of humanity is kept alive. Each person who has worked on Hadestown has changed it. Therefore, each person who has existed as a part of humanity has changed humanity. Although a pattern of tragedy, it is a living and witnessed one. Its repetition reminds us to keep going, to turn around and lose everything in a moment of weakness and still fall in love again with the inkling that all these mistakes have been made before — even so, this is your song and you must sing, you must dream.

I love you stories that know they are stories, i love you breaking the fourth wall, i love you omniscient narrators, i love you circular storytelling, i love you “maybe it will turn out this time”, i love you stories that end by starting over

Feeling a lot of feelings about how Hadestown doesn't present the story as "Orpheus turned around and everything fell apart and there was nothing anyone could do to fix it" and instead presents a story that says "he turned around, he doubted, he failed, but if we keep telling his story maybe one day Orpheus won't" and it's not just about Orpheus as a single character, it's a bout every Orpheus, everyone who runs up against a system they can't change and fails and everyone who sees that failure and gets back up and says "maybe I can change it now" and tries again. That Orpheus failed isn't the takeaway of the story. The takeaway is that one day he might succeed.