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...indeed, King Midas. I do see this pool. You mean the one in the center of the stage? The one where every important event in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s new production of “Metamorphoses” takes place? Oh yeah, I see it. It’s a very nice pool...
...back to that pool for a minute. There is literally a big pool in the middle of the stage, and set designer Courtney E. Thompson ’09 deserves a lot of credit for making it happen. O’Reilly deserves credit as well for making sure that the pool wasn’t just a decorative set piece. It is thematically central...
Sensibly enough, the tales that comprise the “Metamorphoses” revolve around scenes of transformation. Onstage, the big changes all take place in the pool, which accommodates many more subtle modulations of its own with impressive flexibility. One minute it’s a stormy ocean, the next a night-time beach, the next a humble cottage...
...back to that pool for another minute (I don’t mean to fixate or anything, but you’ll understand if you see the show, I promise). The pool is at its most versatile during the story of Ceyx and Alcyone, played respectively by Arlo D. Hill ’08 and Carolyn W. Holding ’10. Ceyx is at sea when the gods hurl a powerful storm at his ship, and he is killed along with the rest of his crew. Meanwhile, Alcyone loses hope by the day, and when the gods permit Ceyx?...
Additionally, the pool is so well realized that other visual elements of the production have trouble keeping pace. The costumes, designed by Lucy W. Baird ’10, are nice but a little plain, as are the non-pool set pieces. In a show where everything is about a certain mood—a magical, lighthearted spiritual openness–anything that seems clunky can weigh down a scene. This clunkiness is noticeable every time a moment of overwrought choreography distracts from the scene, or whenever Zimmerman feels the need to pause and tell the audience exactly what...