Metamorphoses: A Play Book

I've seen this play twice, both beautifully staged/designed/blocked but reading it was lackluster. Maybe I was seduced by the visuals. The most interesting parts of the reading were the descriptions of the staging and directions, that and the Orpheus and Eurydice section (which included both Ovid's and Rilke's versions of the story). Most of the modernized retellings didn't particularly add to or grow off of the original story and the narration had a tendency to fall into simplistic explanations of meaning rather than allowing you to take what you will from it. I never got a sense that it mined anything new except a bland re-hashing of Greek myths. Overall it produces great scene design, but the words were meh.