They set off for the underworld, but first they must cross the River Styx. The ferryman - Charon - refuses to help them because Orpheus doesn't appear to be dead. But Orpheus plays his lyre and ...

‘I feel like if I’m on a stage, I’m living the dream,’ she revealed of her recent turns in both Six and the new Percy Jackson musical, The Lightning Thief. Fans of the E4 show might be slightly ...

Peter Hudson:“Charon” A gigantic 30' spinning wheel with posed human skeletons mounted on its inner edge, Charon is fully powered by a minimum of 12 people working in unison. The sculpture reimagines ...

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Obols would be given to the deceased on the funeral pyre so that they’d be able to pay the ferryman Charon to bring their soul safely into the underworld. Trigger joins Anby (Silver Soldier ...

His lament entranced the ferryman Charon and the ordinarily fierce ... Eurydice would forever remain in the underworld, where few of the living can enter, and none twice. Orpheus led Eurydice ...

There is the sense that the underworld stuff is just flashy window dressing, although it’s certainly not unwelcome. Beale is typically wonderful, not least in his big, rueful setpiece dialogue ...

This was an underground kingdom ruled by the god Hades. To reach the Underworld, dead souls had to cross the River Styx. A grumpy ferryman called Charon would take them across, but only if they ...

It’s courageous of the director Andrew Flynn and Gaiety Productions to import The Ferryman, Jez Butterworth’s blockbuster from 2017, to Dublin. Since premiering in London, and running on ...