Pants on Fire's METAMORPHOSES Wins Best of Edinburgh Award
This year, the winner of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was Pants on Fire's modernized production of Ovid's Metamorphoses, reports Variety. The production won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, which was presented by the Carol Tamber foundation.
Pants on Fire's production of Metamorphoses, directed by Peter Bramley, relocates Roman mythology to 1940's wartime Britain. Cupid - an evacuee with a catapult, Narcissus - a Hollywood Matinee Idol drooling over his screen image and an Andrews Sisters Chorus finding close harmony amid cosmic chaos.
Pants on Fire is a London based ensemble, which celebrates visual theatricality, style and the language of theatre. Ovid's Metamorphoses is the company's 5th production. The show played at the Pleasance theatre throughout August during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The cast for Ovid's Metamorphoses included Johnathan Davenport, Mabel Jones, Joseph Mann, Joanne Dockery, Alex Packer, Hannah Pierce and Eloise Secker. Lighting design was by Ralph Stokeld, with music by Lucy Egger. Metamorphoses was adapted for the stage by Peter Bramley.
The award is scheduled to be presented at the closing ceremonies for the festival on August 27. Metamorphoses is also set to embark on a New York Run at the Flea Theater, this coming January.
Click here for the full article on Variety.
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