Booking and details
Dates Wed, May 22, 2024, 6:30pm
Tickets $25 with discounts for Folger Members and Subscribers
Join Folger Institute Director Patricia Akhimie as she discusses Metamorphoses with production dramaturg Faedra Chatard Carpenter.
About the production
Ovid’s classic tales come to astonishing life in Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation where gods and mortals experience love, loss, and transformation.
Juxtaposing the mythic and the modern, the stories of Aphrodite, Midas, Orpheus, Cupid, and others are told in a whimsical and poignant fashion, reminding us of the joys, follies, and heartbreaks of being human.
Metamorphoses was nominated for three Tony Awards in 2002, including “Best Play.”
Dr. Patricia Akhimie
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Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Faedra Chatard Carpenter (Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: The Beatrice Project: The Reading Room Festival 2025, Metamorphoses;Ford’s Theatre: Production Dramaturg, Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard (world premiere), Script Treatment Writer and Panelist Facilitator, Written Then, Spoken Now: Freedom Was in Sight!; Mosaic Theater Company: Development & Production Dramaturg, The Till Trilogy (The Ballad of Emmett Till, That Summer in Sumner, and Benevolence), Production Dramaturg, Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, Queens Girl in Africa; the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audience: Production Dramaturg, Kimmy ( radio play series); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Dramaturgy Curator: RESET.