pants on fire
OVID'S
METAMORPHOSES
Created by Peter Bramley
With Original Songs by Lucy Egger
Devised by Pants on Fire
Lighting Designed by Ralph Stokeld
With Designs by Samuel Wyer
Pants on Fire’s Metamorphoses presents ancient myths as you’ve never seen them before! This swell party fuses live original music and song, magical stagecraft and breathtaking imagery relocating Ovid’s epic tales of fantastical transformation to WWII Britain.
Cupid is an evacuee with a catapult. Narcissus, an iconic Hollywood heartthrob drooling over his own cinematic image, and The Chorus – Andrews-like sisters finding close harmony amid cosmic chaos.
Tales of love, gods, heroics and monsters are retold by blending gas masks, gramophones, puppetry, film and live original music. Pants on Fire’s Metamorphoses is a dynamic, moving, darkly comic and unforgettable night out
'In this simply breathtaking actor-musician piece Peter Bramley’s Pants on Fire company, Ovid’s Roman myths about transformation are reinvented in highly physical Swing-time style, relocated to the world 1940s wartime Britain and evoked through the innovative multimedia use of puppets, film, sliding screens, gasmasks, gramophones, dance, music hall and torch songs' WHATSONSTAGE
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