Nov. 13, 14, 20, and 21 @ 7:00 pm
Nov. 13, 14, 20, and 21 @ 7:00 pm
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Dramatic Comedy Suitable for Middle School and older
Metamorphoses is a play based on Ovid’s first-century epic, a poetic collection of Greek myths. Each of the tales – beautiful, strange and often cautionary – comes to some form of radical, bodily transformation. Through trauma, love or an attempt to escape an unbearable moment, the characters end up changed into birds or trees, or melting into rivers. Throughout the centuries, these stories have been interpreted variously as reflections of psychological or spiritual journeys, or even as an early form of science – an encyclopedia of how nature got the way it is. They are always reminders that we, and everything we know, will change.
Metamorphoses is a play based on Ovid’s first-century epic, a poetic collection of Greek myths. Each of the tales – beautiful, strange and often cautionary – comes to some form of radical, bodily transformation. Through trauma, love or an attempt to escape an unbearable moment, the characters end up changed into birds or trees, or melting into rivers. Throughout the centuries, these stories have been interpreted variously as reflections of psychological or spiritual journeys, or even as an early form of science – an encyclopedia of how nature got the way it is. They are always reminders that we, and everything we know, will change.
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