Metamorphoses

Storytelling stripped to the bare essentials, this Metamorphoses returns audiences to the very well-springs of the Western storytelling tradition. Conceiving, translating, and adapting from Ovid, Todd Conner reaches even further back than his ancient Roman source material to explore the poetic/bardic tradition from which Ovid drew his inspiration. With only his voice, body, a few props, a minimum of light, and a harp (learned specifically for this piece, for which he also composed accompaniment), Conner’s performance is a reminder that in our age of relentless over-mediation and mass-entertainment, it is the individual human being who must remain the essential medium of artistic expression.