Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 5, 2011
Closed Jan 30, 2011
Opened Jan 5, 2011
Closed Jan 30, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Pant's On Fire's actor-musician extravaganza relocates Roman mythology to 1940's wartime Britain. Ovid's epic tales of heroics, love, gods, monsters and the secrets of the universe are revealed through gasmasks, gramophones, live original songs, dance, puppetry, film and darkly comic, dynamic storytelling. A fun-packed exploration of man's relationship with nature.
In Pants on Fire's Metamoprhoses, Cupid is an evacuee with a catapult.
Narcissus is a Hollywood Matinee Idol drooling over his screen image.
And an Andrews Sisters chorus finds close harmony amid cosmic chaos.
The Guardian raved, "Welcome to the swell party that is Pants On Fire's glorious retelling of Ovid's tales of myth and fancy. A breakthrough show… Rich in inventions!"
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There's inventiveness and whimsy aplenty in Pants on Fire's Metamophoses, now playing at The Flea Theatre. Conceived and adapted by Peter Bramley, the show -- which won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award -- revisits Ovid's tales of the Gods, in which they transformed themselves (and others), amid the swirl of events between the outbreak of World War II and the Armistice. And while there are times when the show devolves into silly messiness, it is mostly an utterly beguiling and gloriously imaginative undertaking.
In 11 scenes, the piece brings a host of Ovid's tales together -- sometimes mashing them up marvelously. For instance as Juno (the marvelously haughty Jo Dockery) attempts[...]