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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
Premier performances
Wednesday 23rd September @ 8pm
Thursday 24rd September @ 8pm
Friday 25rd September @ 8pm
Venue: Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 9DF
Box Office:
Phone 020 8308 2616
Email boxoffice@bruford.ac.uk
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 dimiss 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.
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