Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of Metamorphoses 2023 opened last night at Crow’s Theatre. It’s an 80 minute show, written and directed by Michele Smith, (with, it’s clear, a lot of input from the cast) taking various stories from Ovid. Most of them involve women (or goddesses) revenging themselves on men for various failings ranging from being smug to violent rape. It’s also very concerned with gender fluidity. The principal narrator is Tiresias and along the way we also meet Hermaphorditus and Caenis.
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More March events
Here are a few more events not listed in my previous March post.
On Saturday 18th the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir have a concert at 7.30pm at Church of the Holy Trinity featuring David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion and a new work by Shireen Abu-Khader; Diaries of the Forgotten.
Theatre Smith-Gilmour are presenting Metamorphoses 2023 at Crow’s Theatre. It’s a contemporary take on Ovid that combines mime, illusion, spoken word, silence and Bharatanatyam dance. Previews are on the 21st through 23rd with the run proper from the 24th to April 9th.
Against the Grain’s reworking Of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle with Gerald Finley in the title role plays at the Fleck Dance Theatre on March 29th and 31st at 7.30pm with a matinee on April 1st. The new English language libretto is by Daisy Evans who also directs, Stephen Higgins conducts.