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METAMORPHOSES
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“My mind leads me to speak now of forms changed
Into new bodies…from the world’s beginning to the present day"
Adapted and directed by Peter Bramley
Devised by Pants on Fire
Original Music Composed by Lucy
Egger
Tour dates
Greenwich Theatre
Saturday 24th July – 2pm & 6pm
Box Office: 020 8858 7755
www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk
Edinburgh Fringe Festival – Pleasance King Dome
August 4th – 30th – 12 noon everyday
Pleasance Box Office: 0131 556 6550
Fringe Box Office: 0131 226 0000
www.pleasance.co.uk
www.edfringe.com
Written around the time of Christ, Ovid’s The Metamorphoses is an epic Roman poem derived from Greek mythology. Its stories all share the theme of human beings transformed into new bodies — trees, rocks, animals, magical creatures, flowers and constellations.
This actor-musician show transposes Roman Mythology to 1940s wartime England, a time when heroes were a real-life concept and movie stars were like gods and goddesses. These fantastical stories, which pursue the themes of love and physical transformation as a basis for the creation of all things, were once the basis of a religion on which civilization was built. Though we might dismiss them now as romantically far-fetched, they draw extraordinary parallels to modern theories such as evolution and big bang when explaining how the world and life began.
Pants on Fire and their unique brand of inventive storytelling, live music, original close-harmony songs by Lucy Egger, dance, puppetry and film bring bring ancient myths to vivid, colourful and poignant life.
Press Releases
click to download
METAMORPHOSES.
Saturday 24 July 2010, Greenwich Theatre, London
(PDF, 100K)
METAMORPHOSES.
Wednesday 4 to Monday 30 August 2010, Edinburgh Fringe 2010
(PDF, 100K)
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Metamorphoses