

This is not only an early hint at how Adam is fighting to break the knot between the two worlds, but also about how the final scene of the show gives lingering hope that Martha and Jonas will find a way to exist in the origin world, too.Īlso, there are three doorways behind her on stage in the above scene. Yet something remains behind that cannot be severed. He severed ours, with the sharpest blade. The thread, red like blood, that cleaves together all our deeds.

"The spinning wheel turns, round and round in a circle," she says. In Martha's Ariadne monologue, she speaks about her mother and how Theseus left her. After they escape Crete, however, Theseus abandons Ariadne. Ariadne fell in love with Theseus and decided to help him navigate back out of the maze by giving him a ball of thread. Minos placed Ariadne in charge of the labyrinth on the island, which houses a Minotaur at its center and is used for ritual sacrifice.Īccording to the myth, the hero Theseus came to the labyrinth to kill the Minotaur. In Greek mythology, Ariadne is the daughter of King Minos in Crete.
