Metamorphoses - New Wolsey Theatre
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Metamorphoses

Performed from Thu 10 — Sat 12 Aug

Black and white images of two Senior Youth Theatre members shouting, jumping and stomping sit on a black background. Bright pink wording at the top of the image reads 'Metamorphoses,' with white text around it reading 'The New Wolsey Senior Youth Theatre, by arrangement with Nick Hern Books, presents' and 'Inspired by Ovid and written by Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz.' The white New Wolsey logo is in the top-left corner.

A new play inspired by Ovid by Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz

From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid’s epic stories of transformation, love and power use myth and legend to explore the reality of our existence and the wonder of being alive.

The New Wolsey’s Senior Youth Theatre take to the main stage for the first time in this entertaining and provocative new version of a timeless classic, created for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre by three leading British playwrights and first performed in 2021.

Age guidance: 16+.
Contains strong adult themes, strong language, graphic depictions of violence including sexual violence, infanticide, parricide (killing a parent) and mutilation.

It also features haze, flashing lights, strobe, loud noises and a gun shot.

Please click the link below to download the full Content Warning.

Performance Gallery

The cast of ‘Metamorphoses’ stand around a large shipping container, all looking at it, with their backs to the audience. From behind the container comes orange lighting, giving the whole stage an orange glow.
Three people are on the ground, with two kneeling and one laying on their front. On the right, the person laying down scoops some sand together with their right hand, whilst the other two look on, concerned.
Two people are sat together on striped deck chairs. They are facing each other, and are holding their hands together between them.
Two windows are open from a large shipping container, with two cast members leaning out of each window. The insides of the container are covered in tin foil.
An actor stands in a spotlight, dressed in a black and yellow spider costume which fits around their head, with the legs dangling down from their shoulders. A large shipping container is behind them, with blue lighting glowing from behind.
Two actors stand close together, singing into a standing microphone. The stage is dimly lit, almost making them look like shadows.
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