Metamorphoses, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - punchy, cleverly reworked classic
Any figure in Roman mythology today would be at the pointy end of cancel culture Ovid was exiled " or to put it in twenty-first century terms, 'no-platformed' " by an indignant Emperor Augustus overtly for the scandal caused by his three-book elegy on love, Ars Amatoria. Most scholars believe the intrigue behind his banishment to be more complex, but as this vibrant, dark and witty version of Metamorphoses demonstrat…