The marriage of Hades and Persephone - a marriage between industry and nature - represents this idea. “The metaphors of industry and there being this terrible imbalance between how an industry consumes the natural world and what the natural world is able to sustain and give on its own, are all through the piece,” Chavkin says.
There is even a wall being built - a wall that will never be completed.
All of that news impacted the lyrics and imagery of the show,” Chavkin says.Īfter a time, Eurydice realizes that Hadestown is “basically this proto-fascist state,” Chavkin says - an underground factory that may, in fact, be the source of the problems above ground. “California seemed to be totally aflame, while in the East, you had these tremendous floods, which now we're seeing in the Midwest. When your body aches to lay it down When you're hungry and there ain't enough to go round Ain't no length to which a girl won’t go Any way the wind blowsĪnaïs was “profoundly impacted” by major climate events while she and Chavkin were shaping the show. Weather ain't the way it was before Ain't no spring or fall at all anymore It's either blazing hot or freezing cold Any way the wind blows And there ain't a thing that you can do When the weather takes a turn on you 'Cept for hurry up and hit the road Any way the wind blows… “As we thought more and more about shaping the world that Eurydice and Orpheus are living in - a world caused, in Greek mythological terms, by the decay of the ancient marriage between Hades and Persephone, a world that is out of balance, where it is either freezing or blazing hot, where food becomes scarcer and the idea of stability becomes harder to imagine, and a character, Eurydice, who has spent her life running - all of those things kind of crystallized while we were making the show.”Ī song called “Any Way the Wind Blows” sets up some of the story's themes and characters. Near the beginning of the song, The Fates sing: “The image of the climate being out of whack has been a core one for Anaïs since she started writing the show,” says Rachel Chavkin, the production’s director. For composer and writer Anaïs Mitchell, that sudden change in climate was the perfect backdrop for her new hit Broadway musical “Hadestown.” According to ancient Greek myth, Hades, ruler of the underworld, kidnaps the goddess Persephone, who represents nature and renewal, which brings about the first winter on Earth.
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