Metamorphoses

Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid is a thrilling theatrical exploration of the eternal power of myth. The play takes a modern look at the ancient stories of Midas, who turned everything he touched to gold, Orpheus, whose music moved the god of the underworld to allow him to bring his bride back from the dead and Phaeton, who borrowed the chariot of his father, the sun god Apollo, and crashed it, burning into the earth. Through poetic storytelling and stunning visual imagery, the cast will bring to life tales of men, women and gods transformed into beasts and birds, trees and flowers, beggars and children. Metamorphoses explores the timeless way we are changed by greed and by passion, by grief and by love.