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From the wonderful people who gave Broadway Story Theatre comes Ovid's Metamorphoses. If the current show seems a trifle less exhilarating than Story Theatre, it may be that Director Paul Sills' way with a fable is not applicable to every author. A childlike romp through the Grimm Brothers' goose-pimply fun house is distinctly different from a childlike romp through aphrodisiacal Jovian glades and bedrooms. It de-eroticizes Ovid. He has been altered, as one says of a cat. Ovid was a great worldly poet and wit. Arnold Weinstein, who freely adapted the Metamorphoses...
Until last year. Abruptly, the electronic babysitter moved onto a street called Sesame. It was a combination of the circus, a classroom and the Brothers Grimm. At first it was suspected of merely looking brilliant, compared with the boring horrors of standard children's programming. Vulgarity and violence dominate children's video: mice endlessly bombing cats, family "comedies" with dumb daddies, mischievous kids and dogs who wag their way into your heart, all accompanied by commercials as intense as the Chinese water torture ("Be the first on your block . . . Ask Mommy to get some . . . New! Big! Free...
...presentation as well as a title. The idea is to illustrate texts, usually myths, legends and folk tales, with a limited use of words. Sills, a co-founder of Chicago's Second City Company, calls it "ways of speaking with your body." In this production, largely drawn from Grimm's fairy tales, the stories follow a straight narrative line, but veer off at every other moment into uproarious lunatic humor and fancy...
...what the social assumptions of Victorian culture veiled from most of his fellow adults: that children, far from being the apple-cheeked, docile innocents their parents thought them, were monsters of imagination, able to look at other monsters with candid relish. (The tales collected by the brothers Grimm-not to mention some of Andersen's own-are packed with sadism and nightmare...
...desire to be an animal is as old as humankind. It can be discerned in the rituals of primitive tribes, the fables of Aesop and the tales of the Grimm Brothers. As society grows more sophisticated, so do the stories, which progress from the wishful to the satiric, from the leisurely to the Swift. In Anatole France's Penguin Island, for example, birds are used to mock the church. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the target is Communist society...