14 Reasons to See Metamorphoses

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The Blair Academy Players bring Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses to life in two more productions on May 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wean Theatre of Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts. Reservations may be made by calling Craig Evans, director, at (908) 362-6121, ext. 5682. Tickets for the general public are $8 for adults and $5 for students; free to Blair students, faculty and staff.

Craig entices with his following “14 Reasons” to see this terrific production:

1. There’s a pool in it! Maybe Tech Crew’s greatest achievement!
2. It’s the last performance by the Class of ‘08—in this case, Tyler Browse, Todd Lewis and Tito Rinaldo.
3. There’s no giant cockroach—that’s Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
4. The front row gets splashed, like at Sea World!
5. It’s only a one-act, with several plots! Intellectual, cool and short!
6. There’s a shipwreck!
7. Ovid wrote the original in 8 A.D., exactly 2,000 years ago.
8. This show won the Tony when it ran on Broadway at the Lincoln Center and cost $100 a ticket.
9. Tree nymphs, gods, sea monsters, magical transformations, creation – all in one act!
10. Students deserve a break during AP exams and before regular exams.
11. Invite a date: show him or her how classy you are (students are free – plus, with no intermission, they don’t even have to buy their date a candy bar!).
12. First spring show in five years you can’t get rained on (only splashed up front).
13. There ain’t a bad seat in the house!
14. It’s the last show of the year, finishing off a great year of theatre.

Zimmerman’s acclaimed work transforms Ovid’s tales to the stage “with its emphases on love, loss and the transforming powers of memory and the imagination” (The New York Times). Time said of the play, “Writer-director Mary Zimmerman’s lovely, deeply affecting work…recaptures the primal allure of the theater…It shows that theater can provide not just escape but sometimes a glimpse of the divine.” Midas, Orpheus and Eurydice, Narcissus, Ceyx and Alcyone are just some of the mythical characters whose transformations occur in the waters of the set’s pool. The cast includes Lisa Biletska, Michael Breslin, Tyler Browse, Lindsay Gilbert, Eric Hedden, Katrina Hefele, Todd Lewis, Lotte Lijnzaad, Tito Rinaldo and Nathalie Tilley. The student director is Fred Knight.

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Updated 5/8/08

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