Ted Hughes' Tales From Ovid

A work as inventive, audacious, and vital as the company that created it. Whistler in the Dark Theatre has adapted Hughes's translations from "Metamorphoses" into an original new shape, and the result should be seen by anyone who wants to watch boundary-stretching theater artistry in action. Directed by Meg Taintor. -- Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

It sounds a little like Cirque du Soleil with silk skeins dangling from rafters and aerial aerobics, but "Ted Hughes' Tales From Ovid" is a whole different… Show more ballgame. ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents Whistler in the Dark's production of the retelling of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" through movement and poetry. Tales include Echo and Narcissus, Venus and Adonis, and Pyramus and Thisbe. -- June Wulff, Globe Staff

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