Metamorphoses
by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Gary Krinke
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About the event
Metamorphoses A contemporary translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. "It's the gods behaving badly." "It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths." Mary Zimmerman's re-imagining of ancient Greek and Roman mythology: those tales in which mortals, through the intervention of capricious gods, are literally transformed into other things. Zimmerman's adaptation uses the inherent plasticity of theatre as an analogue to the stories' common themes. The play features the use of a large pool of water that serves alternately to represent the sea, the River Styx, a washbasin, and a swimming pool. The water is the show's spirit and soul as it explores Ovid's classic myths of transformation dealing with loss, separation, regret and remembrance.
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