The pandemic was grinding us down in the fall of 2020. Or, I should say, it was grinding me down. Things that had been new and secretly good about staying home were losing their shine. Loneliness, that dark flower, grew….
Hadestown
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Dear Bacon Friends, Let’s leave Hadestown tonight. Orpheus has snuck into hell, begging Hades to let his lover Eurydice rejoin him in the world above. Hades laughs – scornful – but Persephone convinces him to give the young lovers another…
Today, we learn a few things about hell. Is this a political song? You decide… Why do we build the wall? My children, my children – Why do we build the wall? Why do we build the wall? We build the…
Bacon’s journey to Hadestown wraps up this week in three final installments. One fears things may not end well, and yet – one hopes. As today’s action begins, Orpheus been gone a long time, working on his song. When…
Eurydice waits patiently for her lover Orpheus to finish writing his song, a song of beauty beyond measure that will transform the world with its light and love. She waits as patiently as she is able. And yet – she’s…
Is it possible that Hades is a tragic figure, driven by loneliness, jealousy, and doubt? Orpheus imagines Hades as a King of Pain, trapped in the spider web of his own emotions… “He thinks of his wife in the arms…
The day comes when Persephone must return to the Underworld, and the train comes to pick her up. “Winter’s nigh and summer’s o’er Hear that high and lonesome sound Of my husband coming for To bring me home to Hadestown…”…
Eurydice, with all the love and joy a heart can hold, asks this of Orpheus: promise me that things will always be this way. “I promise,” he says – and I would have believed that boy too. One’s heart breaks…
It’s hard being married to Hades – we can imagine. Super hard living in the darkness and depths of the Underworld. When Persephone returns to the earth’s surface each year to bring spring, can you blame her for going…