JULY IN HADES by
A drama/comedy about Alzheimer’s, aging, dying, the afterlife, and the relationship between mothers, daughters and grandmothers. In a current day nursing home, goddesses and gods mix it up with contemporary human mortals.
After the death of her mother, July searches for answers around her loss. In a role reversal of the classic myth, the daughter finds herself journeying to the underworld, going...
After the death of her mother, July searches for answers around her loss. In a role reversal of the classic myth, the daughter finds herself journeying to the underworld, going...
A drama/comedy about Alzheimer’s, aging, dying, the afterlife, and the relationship between mothers, daughters and grandmothers. In a current day nursing home, goddesses and gods mix it up with contemporary human mortals.
After the death of her mother, July searches for answers around her loss. In a role reversal of the classic myth, the daughter finds herself journeying to the underworld, going “to Hell and back” to find her mother. Can she insure her mother’s safe passage / transition? Can July find her own way out of Hades? Will she lose herself in Pluto’s underworld -- or an underworld of her own making?
The mother-daughter bond is explored, contrasting July and her mother, Bea, alongside the goddesses Persephone and Demeter. How do their bonds cut cross generations and time? Can mending our bonds help guide us in this dire moment of climate crisis on planet earth? The action pivots around the wisdom of Grandmother Hecate. Can the “ancient” world still teach us anything? Are gods and goddesses really any smarter than mortals?
In a current day nursing home, those gods and goddesses step in and out of our own workaday world; contemporary humans interact with them -- sometimes recognizing them, sometimes not -– in strange, surprising and humorous encounters.
After the death of her mother, July searches for answers around her loss. In a role reversal of the classic myth, the daughter finds herself journeying to the underworld, going “to Hell and back” to find her mother. Can she insure her mother’s safe passage / transition? Can July find her own way out of Hades? Will she lose herself in Pluto’s underworld -- or an underworld of her own making?
The mother-daughter bond is explored, contrasting July and her mother, Bea, alongside the goddesses Persephone and Demeter. How do their bonds cut cross generations and time? Can mending our bonds help guide us in this dire moment of climate crisis on planet earth? The action pivots around the wisdom of Grandmother Hecate. Can the “ancient” world still teach us anything? Are gods and goddesses really any smarter than mortals?
In a current day nursing home, those gods and goddesses step in and out of our own workaday world; contemporary humans interact with them -- sometimes recognizing them, sometimes not -– in strange, surprising and humorous encounters.