Hades art 1900s11/21/2023 That idea gave birth to the idea of a bar, of Hades as a thug. Then, in previews, Rachel sidled up to me and said “Um, I think she’s Dolly Parton,” and our world cracked open to allow the fun and even trashy energy of Persephone to enter. There was a point in Canada where we tried a Grecian gown of sorts, with a metallic corset of vines worn on the outside. But the dress has changed as we developed the world of Hadestown. She is spring and summer as we begin, and brings life and energy and hope to the world and to those we meet in the bar. “In every iteration of this costume, Persephone (always Amber Gray) has been in this shade of green. Feathers are a motif throughout the show-a thought that came from our writer Anaïs-Eurydice’s is the most simple, pure, prosaic.” Ashe wears a small worn white feather in her hair. I’m hoping that she’s recognizable to us from our own travels. Her boots are bulky and practical and worn and strong. Eurydice’s textured and worn coat and other clothing-a slip and vest-try to tell the story of an inventive impoverished girl with style and humor, perhaps a dumpster-diver. I showed Rachel the Amy Arbus photo of a young Madonna early on, and we have clung to it. So her overcoat and bag and scarf are to hide her and protect her, to give her a shell that can be removed as she warms to the world she enters, and to Orpheus. “Eurydice is an outsider, maybe a runaway. And the fact is, I knew Rachel as my student at NYU when she was 18, so we had a communal past to draw from. “I think our director Rachel Chavkin won’t mind me saying that, as Hadesetown has developed, she has most particularly related to Eurydice, and so her input here was especially strong and wonderfully personal, even recalling clothing she herself wore or wished to wear as a young woman.
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