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Tony-Winning 'Metamorphoses" at the Redfern Arts Center

KEENE, N.H., 10/12/06 - The award-winning Weston Playhouse Theatre Company will return to Keene for its annual fall tour with Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of Ovid’s timeless tales, Metamorphoses. Weston will appear for two performances at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. The first is a special school performance at 9:30 a.m. on Fri., Nov. 3. The evening performance is a 7:30 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 4.

Both performances are sponsored by the Keene Sntinel. Metamorphoses is co- presented by the Redfern Arts Center and Keene’s Colonial Theatre. The production marks the fifth consecutive collaboration by the theaters.

Hailed by the critics as “deeply affecting” (Time Magazine) and “a combination of agile storytelling and enthralling stagecraft” (Wall Street Journal), Metamorphoses brings a contemporary, often humorous, sensibility to the timeless myths of Ovid.

The 90-minute show features ten famous myths chosen to offer compelling insights into the human condition. From Midas’s greed to Orpheus’s quest for his beloved Eurydice to Phaeton’s egotistical and disastrous quest to drive his father Apollo’s chariot, these stories will be performed by a talented multi-racial ensemble, with each actor playing multiple roles.

Weston’s Resident Producing Director Steve Stettler, who directed Weston’s previous fall tours of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” “David Copperfield,” “Master Class,” and “Dancing at Lughnasa,” directs “Metamorphoses.” Stettler, whose production of the musical “Floyd Collins” won the 2003 New England Theatre Conference’s Moss Hart Award for the Best Production in New England, has directed at major regional theatres across the country and in New York where he was co-Artistic Director of the Obie Award- winning TNT/The New Theatre of Brooklyn, and internationally, including the Norwegian State Theatre in Oslo.

Stettler has given the production a “Neverland” influenced framing, having the stories told by a mother to her children. As the characters come to life around them, the children are drawn into the action, playing many roles themselves. While Mary Zimmerman’s original production of “Metamorphoses” was staged in and around a large onstage swimming pool, the stage for Stettler’s production includes a large bed from which the Mother narrates the stories, a huge wall of windows that can reflect a variety of times and places, and a lower level that can be defined as a pool through billowing cloth, lighting, and sound. “We’re finding our own unique way into the humor and pathos of this remarkable adaptation,” comments Stettler.

Tickets are available through the Redfern’s box office, 603-358-2168 or on the web at www.keene.edu/racbp. Prices are $27 and $24 for the general public, $25 and $22 for seniors and KSC faculty and staff, $14 and $12 for youth ages 17 years old and younger, and $5 for KSC students with ID.

Tickets for all of the Redfern’s presenting events and for performances by the departments of Music and Theatre and Dance are also available. Patrons can still purchase 20/20 memberships that enable them to receive a 20 percent discount for all Presenting Series performances.

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