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''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. 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. ==Background == Mary Zimmerman's ''Metamorphoses'' is based on David R. Slavitt's free-verse translation of ''The Metamorphoses of Ovid''. She directed an early version of the play, ''Six Myths'', in 1996 at the Northwestern University Theater and Interpretation Center. Zimmerman's finished work, ''Metamorphoses'', was produced in 1998. Of the many stories told in Zimmerman's ''Metamorphoses'', only the introductory "Cosmogony" and the tale of Phaeton are from the first half of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. The story of Eros and Psyche is not a part of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''; it is from Lucius Apuleius' novel ''Metamorphoses'' —also called ''The Golden Ass''—and was included in Zimmerman's ''Metamorphoses'' because, as Zimmerman said in an interview with Bill Moyers of PBS NOW, "I love it so much I just had to put it in."〔Moyers, Bill. Interview with Mary Zimmerman. ''NOW with Bill Moyers''. PBS. 22 March 2002〕 She wrote and directed ''Metamorphoses'' during a period of renewed interest in the life and writings of Ovid. Other Ovid-related works published in the same decades include David Malouf's 1978 novel, ''An Imaginary Life''; Christoph Ransmayr's ''Die letzte Welt'' (1988) (''The Last World'', translated into English by John E. Woods in 1990); and Jane Alison's ''The Love-Artist'' (2001). Additionally, Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'' were translated by A.D. Melville, Allen Mandelbaum, David R. Slavitt, David Michael Hoffman and James Lasdun, and Ted Hughes—in 1986, 1993, 1994, 1994, and 1997, respectively.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metamorphoses (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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