Ned Dickens and Ovid Metamorphoses

Ovid Metamorphoses: Theatreworks, which produced his version of Creon in 2007, has commissioned a play that Dickens named Paulo And Daphne. The show is inspired by Ovid Metamorphoses, which deals with tales of creation and transformation. , according to NOW. Dickens characters are Paulo, a Toronto immigration lawyer, and Daphne, his assistant. The story carries over the sexual and emotional drivers from the original: Paulo wants her, Daphne feels she can t love anyone. Playwright Ned Dickens has always recognized the power in the myths of Greece and Rome. In works like Horse, Icara and the epic City Of Wine, he gives a contemporary spin to millennia-old stories of gods, heroes and common people. In the mythic version, the god Apollo chases the nymph Daphne, he desperately in love and she equally anxious to escape him. She is saved by being turned into a laurel tree, which the god declares he will care for; its leaves will adorn the heads of leaders and champions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.