Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown is a stunningly urgent allegory for the interconnected crises of our modern world, mapping seamlessly onto the machinery of global capitalism, ecological destruction, and state-sanctioned violence. For those of us deeply entrenched in solidarity work for Palestine—navigating the exhausting but necessary cycles of writing research essays, giving academic talks, and joining protest marches against the ongoing genocide in Gaza—experiencing the play is not a momentary escape into myth. Instead, it is a confrontational encounter with a devastatingly familiar reality. More
