#orpheusweek

[blueliliesblueroses]

To Orpheus, and all of us… Goodnight, brothers, goodnight.

Happy Trails to Reeve Carney 🎸🥀

[shiningnorthernlights]

So I'm asking if it's true, I'm asking me and you... and you... and you!

[the-cloudy-dreamer]

To Orpheus, and all of us..Goodnight, brothers, goodnight!

I’m days late but still wanted to do something to contribute to @reevepheusweek 🖤

Thank you Reeve Carney for an amazing performance of one of my favorite characters ever!! You’ll be missed 🎸🥀

[reevepheusweek]

Since Reeve Carney is leaving Hadestown soon, from November 12th to 19th we're going to celebrate Orpheus Week in his honor!

Day 1, November 12th, "To the Sunshine and the Fruit of the Vine" (Edmonton): A day dedicated to the first, rural incarnation of Reeve's Orpheus in the Edmonton era of Hadestown

Day 2, November 13th, "Always had a Crowd" (London): A day dedicated to London's stylish rockstar incarnation of Reeve's Orpheus, who never walked alone

Day 3, November 14th, "Touched by the Gods" (Broadway): A day dedicated to the Broadway incarnation of Reeve's Orpheus, the sweet bartender who lives under Hermes's wing

Day 4, November 15th, "I Believe in Us Together" (Love/Relationships): A day dedicated to Orpheus's relationships in general, whether with Eurydice, Hermes, Persephone, the Workers, even an OC!

Day 5, November 16th, "If It's True what They Say" (Grief/Poverty): A day dedicated to Orpheus's circumstances and lowest points in his life

Day 6, November 17th, "Spring Will Come Again" (Nature/Environment): A day dedicated to Orpheus's love for and connection to Nature in general, and his environmentalism

Day 7, November 18th, "Working on a Song" (Music): A day dedicated to Orpheus's musical gifts and his writing/composing process!

Day 8, November 19th, "To Orpheus and All of Us" (Free Day): This is the day we bid Reeve's Orpheus goodbye, so feel free to contribute to the final toast with anything!

Just tag us (@reevepheusweek) and/or tag your work with #Orpheusweek and we'll reblog! (Or send us the link if it's an external work, like a fanfic in AO3 or a Youtube performance!) Submit your fanfics, fanarts, poetry, songs, anything for our beloved poor boy, whether new or old!

Spill a drop for Orpheus, wherever he is now...

[artsying-ifer]

@reevepheusweek Day Two: "Always had a Crowd"

Day 2 of the week and it's London time!!!! I've always had a soft spot for the 2018 London version of Hadestown, so this was very fun to do! Love my insufferable rockstar adjacent king

[jaxs-beanie]

For the first day of Orpheus week, about Edmonton, here's an Edmonton-based fanfic I wrote!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14103420/1/Your-Home-and-Mine

Orpheus grew up with a love of nature and music and a distrust of the industries of Hadestown, but he didn't know the complexities of Persephone's love for Hades until he felt love at first sight himself-and the desire to share your home with someone you loved. Based on the Edmonton version of Hadestown.

[amatalefay]

Orphic Reincarnations: I. Roots (Edmonton)

For @reevepheusweek Day 1: "To the sunshine and fruit of the vine." This is the first part of a triptych of poems focusing on the various incarnations of Orpheus in the Edmonton, London, and Broadway productions. I almost titled it "Reeve In-Carney-ations," but I decided the pun was a bit too clever for its own good.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Check in tomorrow for Part II: River.

I. Roots

 When he asks her to come home with him, Eurydice looks into dust- speckled eyes and sees plains, rolling fields lain fallow, patiently awaiting the age-old rhythm of seasons. Her poet has a soul like the land. He cannot hear the hunger in the storm, the scavengers it scatters in its wake. Look at the sky! she begs. Eyes earthbound, he replies, This is our home.

Even on the long walk out of Hades, nature sustains his hope. When he turns, it is as natural as a flower turning its face to the sun, and the laughter he hears on the wind is not the Fates, but the children who might have grown from this ground and called it home.

And the next time around—

[shiningnorthernlights]

If it's true what they say, I'll be on my way ... but who are they to say what the truth is anyway?