Hades tells Orpheus that the people of the underworld are law-abiding, working people, claiming Orpheus is on the “wrong side of the fence. In the show, Hades tells Orpheus he should go back to where he came from. “I relate really hard to Orpheus in that I really want the world to be a specific way, and a way that everyone can live freely - truly without any things going against them,” he said. Everyone is just happy, basically,” Rodriguez explained. “He dreams of what the world could be, and should be. Orpheus, in a word, Rodriguez said, is a dreamer. He has no agenda, and so it really allows me to just be super, super present every day, in whatever I’m doing.” “I love that Orpheus gets to just play the guitar. Now, he gets to be front and center during his favorite song of the show: “Wait For Me,” which comes at the end of the first act.Īnother perk of the role is getting to join the on-stage orchestra to play his guitar on stage. In April of this year, he took over the role of Orpheus full time. And he did it again and again for audiences across the nation as needed. “It was like a little bit of imposter syndrome, where it was like, ‘Can I really do this?”’ he remembered. The first time he took to the stage as Orpheus was in April 2022. He’d gone on for the leading role a handful of times before. He was a swing, and could go on for a member of the Workers Chorus or Orpheus at a moment’s notice. ![]() ![]() 2022, about a week and a half after his audition. Antonio Rodriguez, who plays Orpheus, auditioned for “Hadestown” in 2022. Eurydice’s lover, Orpheus, comes to rescue her and the couple shows others how to escape their “hellish” environment. The musical reveals the environment is out of whack because Hades - the king of the underworld - and his wife Persephone, whose love controls the seasons, are having relationship problems. The ancient Greeks used this myth to explain something that affects how plants grow.“Hadestown” follows Eurydice, who works in the underworld to escape a world plagued with climate change-induced turmoil and poverty. From then on, whenever Persephone was with Demeter on Earth, Demeter would be so happy and crops, fruit and plants would grow and flourish beautifully – but when she went back to the Underworld, to live with Hades for six months, the plants would stop growing entirely. Zeus and Hades agreed that Persephone would have to spend six months in the Underworld, but that she could return to Earth for the other six months of the year. Persephone had eaten six pomegranate seeds. Hades said, ‘Persephone can only leave if she hasn’t eaten any of the food that I’ve given her.’īut she already had. Zeus visited Hades to ask him to let Persephone leave. Meanwhile, Hades wanted to make it more difficult for Persephone to leave the Underworld, and gave her some delicious Underworld food – a fruit called a pomegranate. Zeus could see how Demeter’s sadness was affecting Earth and so he agreed to help her. She went to Zeus, the king of the gods, to ask him to help get her daughter back from Hades. Crops, fruit and nature all stopped growing. She was so sad, it affected the harvest across Greece. How do you think Persephone felt?ĭemeter could no longer see her daughter and missed her hugely. He wanted the lovely Persephone to be his wife. Hades – the God of the Underworld – arrived through the hole and captured Persephone. , the goddess of agriculture she was the wife of Hades, king of the underworld. ![]() One day she was walking in a beautiful meadow and gathering flowers to take home when a huge hole opened up in the ground. Demeter Characteristics, Family, & Myth - Encyclopedia Britannica. Demeter had a kind and beautiful daughter, called Persephone, who she loved very much. She was a very important goddess to Ancient Greek people, who farmed a lot of their food. Or maybe you could tell someone a myth that you've made up!ĭemeter was the Ancient Greek goddess of the harvest.Can you try and tell someone else the story of Demeter and Persephone now you have heard it?.Who do you think the hero of the story is?Īncient Greek people loved to tell the stories of their gods from memory.Watch the video below of story of Demeter and Persephone or read along.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |