Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
The stories in Metamorphoses are full of comedy, tragedy, pathos, laughter, tears, passion, violence, grief, regret and redemption. An ethnically diverse cast of men and women showcase the universal struggles of love and loss as characters such as Midas, Eros, Bacchus, Zeus, Aphrodite, Ceres and Psyche.
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Very well done work by a good cast.
A true multi cultural ensemble of talented performers that together manage to portray many moving and topical myths.
It was so well done and the production value was great.
very professional troupe on a shoestring budget
The actors were GREAT! The direction and staging were top notch. Go see this play!
well i thought this west liang guy was reallly amazing as well as most of the other cast....
Beautiful play told with great heart. Wonderful performances from the actors. And impressive use of space to hold such BIG tales in a small theatre. Thank you for bringing this production to LA audiences.
Really enjoyed this. Excellent acting, even without water!
Very well acted and deeply emothional retelling of Ovid's stories.
the actors were all amazing. the theater was nice and comfortable. parking was free and easy. the show was a success.
I had seen this play twice before (once on Broadway and once in San Diego) and enjoyed it IMMENSELY on both occasions. However, although I thought the acting, set and lighting were very good in this production, I really don't think this play has the same impact without the water/pool, which not only has a visual impact, but is the psychological metaphor upon which the play is based. I realize that there were problems getting permission from the City of Los Angeles to have the water included in the set design, but if the City wouldn't grant permission, a different theatre should have been chosen (or a different play). I bought tickets to this production specifically because I wanted a friend to see it who had never seen it before and was EXTREMELY disappointed that an integral part of the set was missing.
Acting and direction were superb, but would have liked to see it with real water in the pool
The acting was credible, but the absence of the pool of water that is the foundation of the staging made the whole thing quite suspect. It often felt like a high school performance. Shame on the producer, not on the actors.
Went in grumpy. Came out entertained and much better for the insights the play gave.
I was disappointed because this venue did not use water in the performance but instead adapted the set to simulate water in the pool with smoke and silk. The performance with the added element of water was part of the draw, but I guess they were unable to use water due to the location. Even though the performers were dynamic and quite good, I wasn't into the actual acting as if in "water".
Metamorphoses opened in New York in 2001 and in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum in 2002.
Mary Zimmerman (playwright/adaptor of Ovid) is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where she is currently a faculty member in the Performance Studies department. She has earned national and international recognition in the form of numerous awards, including the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1998). She has won more than 20 Joseph Jefferson Awards for her creative work and received a 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction for Metamorphoses. Other acclaimed works include Journey to the West, The Secret in the Wings, The Odyssey, The Arabian Nights, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and Eleven Rooms of Proust. She is the director and co-librettist of the 2002 opera Galileo Galilei, music by Philip Glass, commissioned by the Goodman Theatre. In 2004 she directed a critically acclaimed production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Her production was restaged in 2006 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All. In 2006 she directed Argonautika at the Lookingglass Theater, which then toured at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and the National Shakespeare Theatre. In 2007, she directed a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera.
Patrick Varon (director) is a Los Angeles-based stage director and is thrilled to work with the Athena Theatre Company again after directing their last production, Pterodactyls. His directing credits include Feast of Famine and Shank 101 (Moving Arts), The Apple That Fell Far from the Tree (East West Players), The More Things Change (24th Street Theatre) and four years at the Mark Taper New Works festival. Workshop pieces include Love Water (Victory Theatre), Smart (Cypress College) and The Road to Los Angeles (Cypress College). In 2006 Patrick co-founded Project 601, a professional theatre collective dedicated to promoting and producing new works for Los Angeles audiences.
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