TALES FROM OVID

Date: March 27-29, 31-April 4
Place: Woods Theatre
Speech Arts Building

Faculty/Staff tickets only $15

When it was published in 1997, TALES FROM OVID was immediately recognized as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, a classic in its own right and a major book for Ted Hughes. For Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read poets of our day, had translated twenty-four of Ovid's stories--legends connected by their transformational motifs--with the elegance and passion that distinguished his own poems.

His vigorous, fluid poetry is drama itself and demands to be spoken aloud. Tim Supple and Simon Reade take ten of the tales --including the stories of Echo and Narcissus, of Venus and Adonis, of Pyramus and Thisbe, among others--and transform them into elegant works for the stage. Erotic, violent, and magical, this dramatization of TALES FROM OVID realizes the immense power of Hughes's original text, which Michael Hofmann celebrated in The Times (London) as "one of the great works of the century."

Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate of England and the author of many books of poetry. His works include Phedre, Birthday Letters, and Oresteia of Aeschylus, among others. He died in 1998.

The University Theatre production is directed by Ruth Griffin.

Visit our website for tickets: www://csufresno.edu/theatrearts or call 278-2216

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Avenue
Fresno CA 93740
559.278.7512
pamd@csufresno.edu