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 Based on the Myths of Ovid Written and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman 

“Metamorphoses (Zimmerman)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com 

METAMORPHOSES was originally produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago, October 1998. 
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 
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. 

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