[FAC] OVID Opens at the University Theatre

[Pamela Dyer]

TALES FROM OVID

March 27-29, 31-April 4

Woods Theatre, Speech Arts Building
California State University, Fresno

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 & Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
559-278-7512
559-278-7215 - FAX
www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts