experience the transfiguring power of love, this September
Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses takes off from Ovid’s narrative poem and spins ten verse stories where pain, loss, selfishness and cruelty are transfigured by love. The avaricious Midas surrenders his power to turn everything to gold in exchange for the life of his daughter. Orpheus, prematurely widowed, sets out for the Underworld to meet with Hades and bargain to reclaim Eurydice, his wife, back. Eros, god of love and lust encounters Psyche, a woman who questions love, and falls for her. The god of springtime, Vertumnus, takes on various disguises and tells outrageous stories to impress a beautiful wood nymph. And there's Myrrah, firm in her belief that she would never fall in love, who angers the goddess Aphrodite and gets punished by falling heads over heels over her father. These and other ancient tales are retold to touch contemporary sensibilities, making us remember or project our own metamorphosis through the power of love.
Directed by
BJ Crisostomo
Artistic Consultant
Dr. Ricardo Abad
Showdates:
September 16-18 and 23-25, 7 PM
September 19 and 26, 2 PM
at the Rizal Mini Theater, Loyola Schools
For Ticket Sales and Inquires contact
Ivanna Pacis at 09052412107.
Experience the transfiguring power of love.
Metamorphoses' Multiply Site
http://metamorphoses09.multiply.com/
Metamorphoses' Trailer Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_IQM97MmI
Video directed and edited by Ella Palileo and Miguel de Quiros
Copyright
Premiered in New York City by
The Second Stage Theatre, New York, September 2001
Artistic Director: Carole Rothman
Managing Director: Carol Fishman
Executive Director: Alexander Fraser
METAMORPHOSES was originally produced by
Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago
OVID'S METAMORPHOSES translated by David Slavitt,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
Rainer Maria Rilke's Poem ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, HERMES.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell, 1995 Modern Library