Mary Zimmerman, a member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company and a professor at Northwestern University, started working on her adaptation of “Metamorphoses” back in 1996. Based on the classical ...

The cast of “Metamorphoses” makes frequent use of a pool at the center of the set, designed by Jason Simms. Evelyn Chen, top, is a New York City-based actor and dancer making her Berkshire Theatre ...

Resident actors at A Noise Within are making a splash — literally. The Pasadena-based theater’s latest play, “Metamorphoses,” directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, is set around a 14-inch deep, ...

Seemingly at random, the 10 actors in director Isadora Wolfe’s reasonably involving production at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre, emerge in half light from a pool that dominates Jason Simms ...

Talk about a comeback. Ovid, that ancient Roman wordsmith, wrote his “Metamorphoses” more than two millennia ago. Now, this month, there are two productions of the play based on that famous work ...

PITTSFIELD — Set in and around a pool, Mary Zimmerman's “Metamorphoses” is drawn from David R. Slavitt’s translation of Ovid’s epic collection of poems that track nothing less than the creation of the ...

One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip. Having convened an assembly of lords and clerics, he ...

Theatre Smith-Gilmour, the respected physical theatre company run by wife-and-husband team Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour since 1980, first turned their attention to the classic narrative poem ...

In 2015, four Columbia University undergraduates published an op-ed in their student paper petitioning English professors to affix trigger warnings to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poem’s “vivid ...

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