"Metamorphoses"

Date: 11/12/09, 11/13/09, 11/14/09, 11/15/09, 11/19/09, 11/20/09, 11/21/09, 11/22/09
Time: November 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m. November 15, 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Audience: Public
Sponsored By: Department of Theatre Arts
Cost: Tickets: $16 general reserved, $14 reserved seniors/faculty/students. Box Office opens Nov. 2, Call 845-257-3880 Monday - Friday 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., or visit www.newpaltz.edu/theatre
Location: McKenna Theatre
Contact: Russ Thompson, x3880, thompsor@newpaltz.edu
Web Site: http://www.newpaltz.edu/theatre

Ovid's "Metamosphoses" is brought to light by playwright Mary Zimmerman in an adaptation that juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary, the comic with the sorrowful. Much of the play's power resides in Zimmerman's story-telling. She deftly combines beautiful language with arresting visual images. The entire play is set in and alongside a large swimming pool as a selection of Ovid's tales is told. Primary themes are love and loss and caution and recklessness, the gods and the humans. "Metamorphoses" is suitable for middle-school audiences and up.