Metamorphoses
Subtitle: a play
By: Mary Zimmerman.
Contributors: Slavitt, David R., 1935-; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 86
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Mythology, Classical -- Drama; Metamorphosis -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change. Metamorphoses played around the country and Off Broadway before moving to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre in March 2002."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid ... 1994."
"The Rilke portion of "Orpheus and Eurydice" is from Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes," in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke ... 1987."
""Kingfisher's Song" is based on David A. Campbell's translation of an anonymous lyric in Greek Lyric Poetry: Elegiac and Iambic Poetry ... 1967."
Table of contents: title: List of Photographs
pagenum: ix; title: Production History
pagenum: xi; title: A Note on the Staging
pagenum: 3; title: Characters
pagenum: 4; title: Midas
pagenum: 7; title: Alcyone and Ceyx
pagenum: 20; title: Erysichthon
pagenum: 32; title: Orpheus and Eurydice
pagenum: 40; title: Pomona and Vertumnus (with Narcissus Interlude)
pagenum: 48; title: Myrrha
pagenum: 52; title: Phaeton
pagenum: 62; title: Eros and Psyche
pagenum: 68; title: Baucis and Philemon
pagenum: 77; title: A Note on the Casting
pagenum: 85