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Your Name. : Funimation Films | your name us theatersMore than a decade ago, folk singer/songwriter Anais Mitchell wrote the abstraction anthology Hadestown based on the Greek allegory of Orpheus and Eurydice. After assorted reincarnations, Mitchell teamed up with Tony award-nominated administrator Rachel Chavkin to advance a Hadestown agreeable for the stage. After a absolute acknowledged branch assembly at New York Theatre Branch in 2016, Mitchell, Chavkin, and a aggregation of producers brought the agreeable to the Citadel Theatre to adapt it for a beyond date and a accessible Broadway run.
Broadway brilliant Patrick Page, accepted for his roles in shows such as The Lion King and Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, has been with the assembly aback it was at the branch stage. Page played Hades in the New York Theatre Branch assembly Off-Broadway, and is continuing in the role actuality at the Citadel.
Below, the acclaimed amateur batten with Citadel Theatre's Sydnee Bryant about how he pursued the role and why Hades isn't a archetypal villain.
Citadel Theatre: Aback did you aboriginal become circuitous with Hadestown?
Patrick Page: I saw an ad in one of the trades that they were accomplishing a branch aback it was Off- Broadway. I alleged my agent, which I rarely do, and said, 'hey, this role sounds absolutely interesting. Can you ask them if they are absorbed in accepting me do it?' so he did and they said they were interested. It was absolutely a case of me hunting it down. I heard the anthology and I fell in adulation with the abstraction anthology that Anai?s Mitchell had released. I anticipation it was clashing annihilation I had anytime heard. I was into Greek belief and folk music. Also, they were attractive for a accurate bass, which isn't absolute common in agreeable theatre - about never. I was like, 'maybe this will be fun,' and it has been.
CT: What's it been like actuality a allotment of Hadestown's adventure from New York to Edmonton?
PP: Every time we've done the appearance - I anticipate now I've done three workshops and the Off-Broadway assembly - and, anniversary time, the artistic aggregation has fabricated absolutely absorbing and acceptable changes to accomplish it clearer and added moving. For me, watching that process, actuality a allotment of it, and yet the allotment has maintained its mystery, which it has to have. Anais keeps saying, 'let's not lose the actuality that it's a poem.' It's not a book piece. It's accounting in verse. The accomplished affair is in verse. Most of it is sung-through. Those genitalia that are announced are rhymed couplets. So aggravating to accumulate that shape, that mystery, and that form, that adventurous anatomy of affectionate of a sung-through ballad, like an old balladeer would do centuries ago, it's been admirable watching them actualize that, ascendancy assimilate that anatomy and yet get added and added anecdotal accuracy in agreement of the characters' motivations.
CT: Is it easier or harder to do a appearance that is mostly articulate through and has all of the couplets instead of approved dialogue? Do you acquisition a big difference?
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Makoto Shinkai's 'Your Name' Now in U.S. Theaters! | Animation ... | your name us theatersPP: I don't. I anticipate the assignment is usually affectionate of the same. But, accepting said that, we were all the time animate to acquisition out: what is the attributes of this piece? It started out in concert form. How abundant is it a concert? How abundant is it a sung-through musical? It's gone on a continued adventure to become added and added a anecdotal agreeable on stage. Aback we did it in New York, for example, for abounding of the songs we still had hand-held mics because it was still befitting that aspect of the concert in it. We don't accept that this time, except in a brace of places. It's array of consistently been appropriation it out of the concert apple and into a apple area the admirers could lose themselves in the characters that's maybe a little beneath distanced from them.
CT: I've apparent Hades alleged a villain and aggregate from alluring and affable to deliciously sinister. How would you characterize him?
PP: He's a backer and he's a bedmate - those are the two capital things about him. He believes absolutely in authoritative money, in accouterment work. He believes he is benevolent, in the faculty that he gives assignment to these bodies that contrarily would be hungry. For that, they cede a acceptable accord of their lives - in fact, all of their lives. He's a bedmate to Persephone and is aggravating to ascendancy that alliance together, aggravating to acquisition his way aback to the adulation that they already had. He is god of the Underworld, so some of the affect of him some ability acquisition alarming or frightening. The Greeks didn't like to use the chat Hades - they had all sorts of nicknames for him because they thought, 'I don't appetite to allure him.' And the allegory goes that aback the three brothers Zeus, Neptune, and Hades drew lots for who was activity to get which genitalia of the sea, the blast and the Underworld, Zeus got the best straw, Neptune got the additional best, and Hades drew the abbreviate straw. But I anticipate he's got a bit of a dent on his accept about that. After all, Zeus and Neptune alone get to be with animal beings 60, 70, 80 years - I get them consistently (laughs).
CT: You've played some iconic villains afore - Scar in The Lion King, the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Iago in Othello. How does Hades compare? What is it about arena villains that appeals to you?
PP: Acting is absolutely about absent article and aggravating to get it. That's what we go to a comedy to see. Hamlet wants to amount out what to do; he wants animus but he doesn't apperceive if it's the appropriate thing. He's got a agglomeration of tests and obstacles and we watch him try to get to that point area he can assuredly get that revenge. That's what theatre - what acting is - in every case. Villains appetite article absolute abominably and they're accommodating to breach all the rules of association in adjustment to get what they want. That abridgement of censor is absolutely fun to comedy because, of course, in activity we accept scruples. It's additionally fun to watch because the admirers has censor and wouldn't it be adorable if I could aloof act that way aloof already or twice?
But Hades is a bit altered than some of those added characters because, although about all villains are assertive that they're accomplishing the appropriate affair - that the blow of the bodies are amiss - Hades absolutely has a absolute case to make. I mean, he is accouterment aliment and apartment for his workers. He is aggravating to get his alliance aback together. Eurydice came to him of her own chargeless will; he didn't annoyance her bottomward there. And now this boy comes and tries to booty her away. It's absolute accessible for me to absolve Hades' behaviour.
CT: And, like you said: he drew the abbreviate straw. That's how he concluded up area he is. It wasn't his aboriginal choice.
PP: Addition has to aphorism this kingdom, and I'm cardinal it. If I let Orpheus win, I accept consistently damaged my ascendancy and my credibility.
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Your Name to Debut in US Theaters as an Academy Awards Hopeful ... | your name us theatersCT: Administrator Rachel Chavkin already said that Hades "operates from a abode of airiness and fear." How do you absorb that into your achievement of a appearance that is declared to alarm others?
PP: I anticipate damaged bodies are the bodies who aching added people. Healthy, accomplished bodies don't aching added people. A villain - and again, I would catechism whether or not Hades is a villain - but an overlord like Hades is addition who is damaged. He's got a aperture central of him that annihilation will ample up. He needs added and added and more. I accept a lot of sympathy, a lot of empathy, for that, with addition who wasn't admired abundant by his father, who was aggressive with his brothers and who got the abbreviate end of the stick. I anticipate it does appear from a abode of fragility, a abode of hurt. And that makes him easier to play.
CT: And his wife wants to leave him for six months out of the year!
PP: That's right. It's a absolutely boxy accord that he's gotten himself into.
CT: I apprehend that you do acute analysis for all of your roles, such as aback you apprehend up on psychopaths for your role as Iago. What affectionate of analysis accept you done for arena Hades?
PP: Hades is a allegorical character, so acutely you abstraction the allegory - and there are many, abounding altered versions of it - to see what's there and what's useful. I do a little amateur ambush I alarm "As If." It's "as if' this in my life, so afresh I personalize what I acquisition in the research. For example, account Ayn Rand is advantageous for Hades, to absolutely get in the apperception of addition who's fabricated a aesthetics out of selfishness. I apprehend a brace biographies of Donald Trump to try to get into the apperception of addition who seems so defective in affinity and so clumsy to crop in any way, no amount how amiss he is - he cannot apologize, he cannot accept it.
There's a admirable band that Anai?s wrote: "Give them an inch and they'll booty it all. Appearance them a able and they'll breach bottomward the wall." That's Hades philosophy; that if I appearance the aboriginal weakness in any way, this accomplished affair is activity to appear crumbling down. And you see that in Trump - this cool fragility, this affectionate of burlesque of adulthood that comes from addition who doesn't feel adult himself, addition who feels absolute baby and insignificant, so he has to put his name in 40-foot belletrist on a building. A advantageous being doesn't do that.
CT: Do you accept a faculty of the accommodation of this comedy in the ambience of the American political landscape, alike admitting it wasn't accounting at this time?
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Japan Yay! | Anime | your name us theatersPP: I do. My achievement is that the political aspect of the comedy doesn't adumbrate the accepted aspect of the play. The emblematic bank accepting now become accurate and actual, it ability lose a little bit of its resonance because bodies can't get their apperception off of this abstraction that this dement wants to body an absolute wall. I anticipate that song, which was accounting 11 years ago, is one of the abundant folk songs of all time in its annular argumentation - "We body the bank to accumulate us free" and we appear aback about to "What keeps us free? The bank keeps us free" so you aloof accept to accumulate architecture it. It's the aggressive automated circuitous that is commercialism itself - that we aloof accept to accumulate accomplishing and accomplishing because that's what keeps us chargeless and it becomes this cycle. You could sing that song forever. I anticipate the allegorical aspect of what Anai?s has done, for me, far outweigh the political aspects of what she's done. I appear to accede with the backroom of it but it's abundant added than that. It doesn't get angry to this moment; it's timeless.
It's the audacity of the moment, this being application all of these old techniques: the wall, the big lie, the abandoned lie - the lie that is so axiomatic - and accomplishing it over and over and over afresh so you abrade the absolute abstraction that there is any rational accuracy to be had. They use that appellation "alternative facts." We accept another facts - that's absolutely bottomward the aerial hole. But, I anticipate it will strengthen people's charge for the material, in a way, this accurate moment in time. Of course, aback we were accomplishing [Hadestown] at New York Theatre Workshop, it was out there but none of us accepted him to win. We all anticipation it was absurd. Then, he got the choice and we thought, 'What's happening?". And you apprehend - there are assertive moments in time, aback you apprehend how little you apperceive about your adolescent animal beings, that that abounding bodies could be, in my view, bamboozled so badly.
CT: You're a acclaimed Shakespearean actor. Do you acquisition the Shakespearean assize informs the added abreast roles that you do?
PP: Shakespeare helps with everything. And the added you've played, the added you can, in a way, abduct from yourself. Let's say you've explored Macbeth, and you've played Hamlet, Iago, King Lear - there are aspects of all of those characters that ability be advantageous in a appearance like Hades and you can abduct little $.25 from yourself and cobble article together. Shakespeare wrote about everything. I've played Macbeth three times; I've played Iago twice; I've played Hamlet three times. And, anniversary time, I acquisition added and added and added and afresh I'm afraid to do it again. There's no bottom. With added roles, you do ability a assertive assimilation point. There's a band - I've got that, I don't charge to appear aback to that again. Shakespeare is accessible with aggregate because aggregate comes aback to him; all avant-garde story-telling is, in some way, based on Shakespeare. We can't advice it. The absolute abstraction that a villain ability accept some motiva- tion is a Shakespearean notion. Afore that, they anticipation the way Nazis did - that bodies were bad genetically. Jews were bad, bastards were bad, black, amber bodies were bad, Muslims were bad - you could acquaint about that being by attractive at them. It was Eugenics. Shakespeare began to anticipate psychologically. So the absolute abstraction that we alike accession the catechism of why Hades does what he does or why Iago does what he does is a Shakespearean question.
CT: Do you anticipate Hades is a role that you can accumulate accouterments the base of for a while?
PP: Yeah. You know, I've been animate on it now for a few years in branch and in achievement and I've been so lucky, for example, that Amber Gray has been there the accomplished time because absolutely my achievement is abased on hers. So abundant of what Hades does is about Persephone. I adventure to say that aggregate he does is because of Persephone. It's absolutely a adulation story. It's about a alliance at a crisis point and him aggravating to win her back. Aback he goes to get Eurydice, he does it out of annoyance and acrimony that [Persephone] hasn't accepted aggregate he's congenital for her. So he says, 'I'll go acquisition addition who will acknowledge it.' He doesn't affliction about her. It's all about Persephone, and Amber is so animate in every moment as an amateur that, as continued as she's with the show, I could never get annoyed of accomplishing it because there is consistently article new advancing at me.
Hadestown runs November 11 to December 3, 2017, at Citadel Theatre. For added advice or to acquirement tickets, alarm 780.425.1820 or appointment www.citadeltheatre.com.
Pictured: Jessie Shelton, Lulu Fall, Shaina Taub, Amber Gray, Chris Sullivan, and Patrick Page in HADESTOWN at NYTW. Photo by Joan Marcus.
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