Healthy Choices Essays

Submitted By marcusdietz
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"Metamorphoses"
The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and film production of Mary Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses" presented this play with great enthusiasm. This play has A beautiful and magical piece of theater that retells several of the myths from Ovid's seminal poem. It is a play about transformation and perception to how we, as a society, have come to ignore our mythic side despite the fact that we, as a people, have not changed at all since antiquity.
Problematic to give a rating to a play that is as designed heavy as Zimmerman's Metamorphoses ultimately is, and my thoughts is influenced by a production whose design was executed very well. That said, having read Ovid's Metamorphoses I can say that Zimmerman has done a freaking fantastic job synthesizing Ovid's work into this play. Zimmerman focuses more on the beauty of Ovid than the brutality, but whatever, someone else can write a play about entire dining halls having their bowels gored by a horned beast. Ceyx and Alcyone, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Eryscithon and his Daughter are all brought to life with simplicity and faithfulness to Ovid. The language is beautiful, and in the cases of Bacchus and Phaeton, side-splitting. The tales give a great mixture of tragedy, chance, and hope.
The play Metamorphoses in my eyes was a great play; however where I was sitting made it difficult for me to see what was going on at all times. I was seating in front of the stage but towards the back, and with the help of some young kids that were sitting