![]() finally a physical experience of the poem, bodies and all! but when you read that, when the closest you can get to the theatre's bodily movement is reading the stage directions, you're just reminded of what has to be missing from a play-the text-and what little is there of the text (and of other texts! i don't think i'd ever heard of that rilke poem about eurydice before-it was v cool) makes you want the rest. ![]() so that's where a play comes in that's where mary zimmerman comes in. what makes this play necessary, what gives it the right to exist, is that it activates one of the most crucial aspects of ovid's metamorphoses that remains dormant as a poem-the bodies! when you get right down to it, when you want to reduce the metamorphoses in the most prosaic way possible, it's a poem about Weird Things Happening To Our Bodies it's about how bodies can't really contain everything that happens to a human, or aren't good at describing and representing the emotional experience of being human. Not that i care about star ratings as you all know, but i do feel like i gave this an """"extra star"""" because of the necessary inadequacy of this play as a read experience. ![]()
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