Metamorphoses (play)

Metamorphoses
Written byMary Zimmerman
Characters
  • Myrrha
  • Midas
  • Hermes
  • Phaeton
  • Aphrodite
  • Erysichthon
  • Alcyone
  • King Ceyx
  • Orpheus
  • Eurydice
  • Therapist
  • Apollo
  • Baucis
  • Philemon
  • Ceres
  • Psyche
  • Eros
Date premiered1996
Place premieredNorthwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama, comedy

Metamorphoses is a play by the American playwright and director Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago. The play opened off-Broadway in October 2001 at the Second Stage Theatre. It transferred to Broadway on 21 February 2002 at the Circle in the Square Theatre produced by Roy Gabay and Robyn Goodman.[1] That year it won several Tony Awards.

It was revived at the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago on 19 September 2012 and was produced in Washington, DC at the Arena Stage in 2013.[2]

  1. ^ Brantley, Ben (2002-03-05). "THEATER REVIEW; Dreams of 'Metamorphoses' Echo in a Larger Space (Published 2002)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  2. ^ "Metamorphoses". Looking Glass Theater. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2014.