Nature is constantly transforming, everything is changing, everything flows and everything is connected. Ovid himself called his work a “Carmen Perpetuum”, a song without end: mixed beings of animal and human, nymphs, animals, giants, plants, humans …: numerous beings and forms of beings are encountered in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the world-famous collection of myths from antiquity. Here, transformation as the law of life par excellence plays a central role. For example, Daphne is transformed into a laurel tree to protect her from the lovestruck Apollo. Narcissus is forced to take the form of a daffodil due to his hopeless infatuation with himself. And Achelous transforms first into a snake and then into a bull to face off against Hercules. Ovid’s transformations are either punishing, rewarding, protective, and sometimes random.
Sara Ostertag, a specialist in the body as well as atmospheric image theater, reads Ovids Metamorphoses to their utopian potential. Ovid’s world view knows no fixed categories, no binary identities, no separation between humans, animals and other living beings. After Tuntschi. A molt this will be Easter day’s second work at the Bern stages. Also on stage will be Brian Archinal and Antoine Françoise, two musicians from the up-and-coming New Music Quartet Nickel.
2023-09-02 18:32:39
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