A group of storytellers opens a breach in time. We are not truly in ancient Greece, nor in the present: we are in a suspended space, a kind of bubble where different eras meet and myths can be observed up close, as if happening now.
From this anachronistic place emerge stories drawn from Ovid's Metamorphoses. They take shape through our contemporary gaze, cross-contaminated by everyday life, irony, and pop culture.
King Midas becomes a CEO too busy generating profit to notice he is neglecting his own family. Baucis and Philemon tell of the revolutionary power of hospitality in a world dominated by selfishness. Orpheus descends into the Underworld to chase lost love, obsessed with a woman who no longer belongs to him. Alcyone and Ceyx learn, at great cost, to love each other beyond convention, only to be transformed by grief. And Phaethon, in session with a psychotherapist, rereads his myth as the story of a son who wants to be seen by a father too far away.
Metamorphoses are the way human beings have always tried to give shape to their desires, their fears, and their losses. And perhaps, looking at them from this impossible distance between past and present, we realise those transformations still concern us.
