There's a musical called Hadestown which is more or less based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. It's a tragedy which they do warn you of in a very upbeat jazz number. It's a very fine line between false advertising and honesty. I would protest, but they did give the fine print up front. (all photos of me are mine, but all the other photos were from Pinterest)
Main 4 characters:
Enter Eurydice, a hungry young girl who's negotiating skills could use a little work.
Enter Persephone, goddess? of Spring, Queen of the Underworld, and resident alcoholic
Enter Hades, King of the Underworld, infatuated with the Industrial Revolution and big fan of walls, emotional or otherwise.
Plot
Eurydice and Orpheus have a meet cute, they get married, and Orpheus gets really wrapped in writing his song that will bring the world back into tune. I mean she did marry an artist, but also on a serious note he's not wrong. Hades and Persephone are having a rocky relationship, hence why the world is all out of whack. Eurydice, the hungry young girl is taking care of things but the winter is really bad and she's starving. So Hades comes in
and Eurydice is like 'would go to hell for a sandwich' while Orpheus is off somewhere else
After finding out what happened to Eurydice, Orpheus goes to save her. And sings potentially my favourite song on the soundtrack album, 'Wait For Me.'
If you don't know the story, I won't spoil the rest of it for you. That's just the general context for this whole cosplay-ish photoshoot that I did. If you're up for bootlegs there's a pretty good one on Youtube titled The Tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice Explained ft: Hadestown OBC . Not that I care if you watch/ listen to it. I barely have a passing interest in this musical. Truly mild interest. It's not even that good guys.
So now that context is out of the way here's photos...
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There were so many sounds in the woods. There were these loud geese on one side, and this loud hoard of frogs that sounded like they were fast coming our direction. Who new frogs could sound so terrifying. It sounded like we were stuck between a goose/frog battle or something and both sides were angry.
This poor lady on her horse that we startled in the woods. She seemed really suspicious of us but we were explaining what we were doing and she was curious about the carnation I was holding and she seemed like she was less nervous about us and then she saw the feathers in my hair and got really excited. Everything changed after that, she started talking about her horses and cameras and whatnot.
channeling my love of being a feral woodland creature aside from having this gif going off in my head the whole time there were photos being taken.
it looks kind of like claw marks but it's just the bark. Need I say more
Special thanks to Skye's mom for photos and her sister for makeup. It turned out so well and I had a complete blast. I don't know, this whole thing meant a lot and I've been kind of obsessed. I adore this musical more than I can say.
