WICA Presents METAMORPHOSES 6/10-25

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, is proud to present Mary Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses" at WICA, 565 Camano Avenue, Langley, WA June 10 - 25, 2011.

"Metamorphoses" stages -- in 5000 gallons of water -- the great transformation myths of Ovid and explores the concept, possibilities and consequences of change.

Zimmerman, on why she chose to write a play based on stories thousands of years old says, "These myths have a redemptive power in that they are so ancient. There's a comfort in the familiarity of the human condition." Each vignette, and the play itself, is about change, which one can surmise from the title. These changes however are all related to love, which takes on many forms and leads the bearers to many things, both good and bad. In the end, even Midas is redeemed and is reunited with his daughter who had been turned to gold by his former love of money and power.

"[Metamorphoses] makes it easy to enter the heart and to believe in greater change as well... that we all can transform." -- Mary Zimmerman

"Metamorphoses" is directed by Robert W. Prosch and features Jennifer Bondelid, Morgan Bondelid, Katy Brooks, Anthony Caldwell, Tom Churchill, Max Cole-Takanikos, Gwen Jones, Kent Junge, Savannah True Randall, Tristan Steel, Katie Woodzick, and Dwight Zehm.

The Creative Team includes Jennifer Bondelid (Movement), Ann Deacon (Lighting Design), Jason Dittmer (Scenic Design), Val Johnson (Costume Design), Jim Riley (Dramaturg) and Rob Scott (Stage Manager).

Ticket prices range from $12 to $16 and are available from www.WICAonline.com or 360.221.8268 - 800/638.7631.

WHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS' "METAMORPHOSES" FACT SHEET

WHAT: Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents Mary Zimmerman's glorious adaptation of Ovid's epic poem - "Metamorphoses" - and explores the concept, possibilities and consequences of change June 10 - 25, 2011.

WHERE: Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Avenue, Langley, Washington.

TICKETS: Tickets range from $12 to $16 and are available from www.WICAonline.com
or 360/221.8268 - 800/638.7631.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

OPENING NIGHT GALA
Friday, June 10 (after the performance):"Opening Night Gala" is included in the price of an Opening Night ticket.

BROWN BAG PROLOGUE AND MATINEE
A Prologue is a short introduction to a Theatre Series production. Prologues introduce characters, themes, language and other background information -- preparing you to get the most out of your playgoing experience. Bring a lunch!
Sun, June 12 @ 1.15pm:Pay-What-You-Will. Please call to reserve your place in Zech Hall.
Tickets to "Metamorphoses" must be purchased separately.

TALK BACK SUNDAY
Meet the artists who created Metamorphoses. Join us for an informal interview and chat with actors and artists on the Michael Nutt Main Stage following the matinee.

Sunday, June 19 (after the performance) "Talk Back" is included in the price of a matinee ticket.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT.

"I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to invent a machine that could record my dreams, so I could watch them in the morning; or hire someone to draw the things I had in my head, because I knew I didn't have the skill to do it myself. Theater is that machine. I can make these images come to life and actually walk around inside them for a while." -- Mary Zimmerman

Mary Zimmerman is the recipient of a 1998 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director and 10 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Production and Best Direction. She is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago, an Artistic Associate of the Goodman and Seattle Repertory Theatres and a Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Works which she has adapted and directed include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Seattle Rep), The Odyssey (Seattle Rep), Arabian Nights, Journey To The West, Metamorphoses (Seattle Rep), The Secret in the Wings and Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass, About Face).

"It was this surreal, incredibly moving, very, very strange experience," Zimmerman recalls. "A friend said it was like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney, except you're sobbing the whole time."

Zimmerman was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2002 she won the Tony for Best Director for Metamorphoses.

Learn more about Mary Zimmerman at http://www.wicaonline.com/2010-2011/THEATRE%20SERIES/TS-METAMORPHOSES.html

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City of Langley / 2010 Producers Circle / Friends of WICA / Intermec Foundation / Washington State Arts Commission / The NEA
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Whidbey Island Center for the Arts' mission is to provide and maintain a community arts facility, and to promote, develop and present diverse programs of entertainment, education, and cultural enrichment to the Whidbey Island community and its visitors.

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