Q: WHAT DID YOU TRY TO ACHIEVE THROUGH THIS ADAPTATION?Ī: I wanted the audience to leave and go out to dinner somewhere and have a lively and heated discussion about the choices the characters make in the show. Then adding the unspoken third story of the tortured souls who are “faceless” and condemned to Hades took on a paramount importance to ensure that the audience didn’t romanticize the truth of the location and the predicament the souls found themselves in. Q: WHAT WAS THE MOST DIFFICULT PART IN CREATING THIS ADAPTATION?Ī: Incorporating the secondary story of people dealing with broken love and who no longer believe that love is a valid form of emotion. It makes us take pause and think about what we have done so far with our lives and if we are following the original plans we designed for ourselves. It coils and binds the blood it strangles and pains until the debts of our souls have been remunerated to the gods.” It reminds us that our actions in life have consequences after death. Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PART OR LINE IN THE PLAY? WHY?Ī: “Death does not set one free.
How would she cope with meeting the souls of major personages of other Greek tales? Thus the idea of adding the family of the House of Atreus was born. Then I began to imagine what Persephone would encounter as she wandered through Hades. Was it lust or love at first sight? Too many questions popped in my head as I sat and pondered.
Then to top it off, I wondered how such a dark god like Hades could lose complete control and kidnap a woman out of the blue. How can a relationship and a story that starts off in violence and ends up in love even be truthful? This was a difficult concept to explore. Q: WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE THIS ADAPTATION?Ī: The story of Hades and Persephone has always intrigued me. “Hades - A Retelling Of The Persephone Myth” Dance movement, choral work, and beautiful tableaux add additional richness to this dramatic play. Ultimately she faces a decision: Should she eat the seeds of a pomegranate to stay with her new love Hades in the underworld forever or return to earth to save her loved ones from death? A flamboyant Hermes and crotchety Charon add plenty of humor to this play which explores the many facets of love. Soon Persephone’s presence makes flowers bloom and food grow, causing the tone of the underworld to brighten dramatically. Although initially she is desperately unhappy, Hades works hard to make her comfortable, and they learn the intricacies involved in dealing with one another. Then Hades kidnaps Persephone, the goddess of spring, who is young and carefree. They are all tortured souls, especially after being in the lowest dregs of hell for centuries. His only companions are an ensemble of the dead composed of many of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War as well as the bitter and resentful queens, Helen, Cassandra, and Clytemnestra.
As Lord of the Underworld, Hades’ life is perpetually dark and dismal.
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