I'm imagining that the big names of the Underworld are metaphorical brand names IXION is Hadestown's power company with its constantly whirring turbines SISYPHUS is the construction arm, endlessly digging up stone for the Wall TANTALUS manufactures processed food, drugs, booze
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The turbines shudder and groan back into motion, all the addicts suddenly remember they need today's hit of their addiction of choice, work calls you back to shift another load of stone onto the next layer of the Wall Cerberus jerks awake and tenses and growls
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The show -- especially the song "Why We Build the Wall" -- but the whole thing really -- so perfectly captures this 21st-century zeitgeist of this system so huge and so awful and so byzantine it simultaneously seems impossible that it hasn't died yet and that it ever could die
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(And, okay, I gotta hand it to them, the big spectacle where the whole set "falls apart" and rapidly converts from the train station set to the Hadestown is money well spent, it makes this point visually very well)
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