A Poem and A Mistake

Myrrha, a grad student in the classics, confronts her professor over the 50 sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Their combustive exchange sparks a cascade of magical transformations. As literary as it is visceral, as slyly funny as it is moving, this powerful one-woman play will stay with you. The piece examines what we inherit from the stories passed down to us and cuts to the duality in all...