Summary of Show:
Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences. This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp. www.concordtheatricals.com
Characters:
Orpheus: Lyre-playing poet, gifted and naïve
Eurydice: A runaway, tough and vulnerable
Hades: Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of Hadestown
Persephone: Queen of nature and the season, a lush
Hermes: Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to Orpheus
Fates: Three Sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the head
Workers: Spirits of labor and community, a physical choral presence
CONGRATULATIONS CAST & CREW
1. Please join the Remind for Hadestown - download the Remind App and enter class code: @hermes25 OR Send a text to 81010 with this message: @hermes25
2. If you accept your role, please print (or pick up paper copy in Black Box) the PRODUCTION CONTRACT - LINKED HERE and turn in or email to KRich
3. Look over the rehearsal schedule (below) and make sure you check out important summer dates, weeks of rehearsal, when techs begin, etc. This is subject to change but will give you and your families an accurate calendar to plan with! Rehearsals are mandatory so please plan accordingly.
4. Cast, once you join the Remind, sign the Production Contract and check out the schedule, please plan to come to the Black Box (Room 417) to pick up your script prior to summer. *If you are in 8th grade but know a Union student who can pick your script up, please email me.
