Do you want to make your Halloween weekend even spookier? The Beyond the Page Theater Company’s “Hadestown” takes you through a stroll in the underworld right from your seat.
Showing dates are from Oct. 30 to Nov. 8, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The afternoon curtain opens at 1 pm, and the night show begins at 7 pm. The musical storytelling utilizes vintage American Jazz and folk to take you through an adventure of ancient Greek mythology. Directed by Omar Cruz, West Potomac’s take on Hadestown is a show that captures the reality of hardship within relationships, life challenges and how these themes affect one another throughout the storyline.
The narrative explores two sets of couples in two different settings. Both worlds at the beginning of the play are in a state of adversity as deceased souls labor away in the underworld, while living souls suffer poverty in the upperworld.
A dreamy musician named Orpheus and a practical self-sufficient young woman named Eurydice fall in love. They encounter life conflicts together that challenge and progress their relationship. Alternatively, the other couple, the god Hades of the Underworld and his wife Persephone have a love-hate relationship. Their dynamic is complicated, different natures and past circumstances explain why they are at odds.
The story’s timeline lasts a couple of months and seasons, which are theatrically represented in the story.
“Orpheus and Eurydice are young lovers who meet and fall in love during the spring, but as winter comes tragedy strikes and Eurydice’s fate is unpredicted. Orpheus goes to the underworld to find her and the life between Hades and Persephone has begun to fade. Due to the fact that they are Gods, their love directly affects the seasons, and the above world is thrown out of balance,” Perrin Ash described, a senior casted as Persephone’s understudy.
Tickets cost $10 per seat with an extra $5 charge for adults. Additionally, there will be a raffle at the end of the play on the last showing Nov. 8. The winner’s grand prize is a Weber SAE-330 grill. More information is provided on the West Po theater program’s Instagram account Beyond the Page Theater.