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...Good Shepherd” was looking for someone to translate a passage from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”In the movie, a beautiful German translator asks Matt Damon’s character if he’s read Ovid, and Damon responds with the quotation Schafer translated.As a thank-you, Schafer and his wife were invited to one of the movie’s rehearsals at the set in Manhattan.“And this very nice guy, the brilliant dialect coach, said, ‘Hey Matty! Here’s John! Helped...
...Flirting opens a window of potential. Not yes, not no," says Perper. "So we engage ourselves in this complex game of maybe." The game is not new. The first published guide for how to flirt was written about 2,000 years ago, Perper points out, by a bloke named Ovid. As dating books go, The Art of Love leaves more recent publications like The Layguide: How to Seduce Women More Beautiful Than You Ever Dreamed Possible No Matter What You Look Like or How Much You Make in its dust. And yes, that's a real book...
Given their ability to change the nature of things, it's fitting that the Campanas' current project is designing sets for Création 2007, the Ballet National de Marseille's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, premiering in Luxembourg in December. Ancient Rome meets contemporary Brazil? Look out for the Dance of the Vestal Refuse Collectors; it's sure to swing...
...it’s worth sticking it out through the less inspired moments of “Metamorphoses.” When Ovid gets to speak for himself, the weight disappears, and the show takes...
Love, transformation, and a twenty-foot pool? Ovid never saw that last part coming. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) opens its first Loeb Mainstage show of the year, Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of the classic “Metamorphoses,” tonight at 8 P.M. Directed by Carmel O’Reilly, co-founder of the local Súgán Theatre Company, and produced by Allison B. Kline ’09, the play is this year’s Visiting Director’s Project. Zimmerman’s adaptation is a compilation...