 Hey Bears, I'm Juliet Buff of CalTV Entertainment and tonight we're at the premiere of Metamorphosis presented by Bear Stage at the Coral rehearsal hall. So join me and let's check it out. Monica Wright and she was one of the fabulous producers for this show. Monica, what are some things that we can look forward to tonight that may be Bear Stage hasn't done before? So this show incorporates like a lot of interesting elements of theater that you'd see in other shows but that like come all together in this we have like live music and kind of fun interpretive dance and We're using multiple elements in this show So I'm just gonna throw that out there let you guys kind of like get surprised when you come here But yeah, see some water on stage, which is gonna be really fun. Yeah. Wow. That is Really interesting and could you tell us a little bit about what the play is about? Sure. Yeah So the play is an adaptation by Mary Zimmerman and it's of Ovid's myths So the show is really ten Small vignettes all different stories like really famous Greek stories that people will come and see and recognize and really enjoy But like it's a new modern spin on them Could you tell us a little bit what it was like playing multiple characters in one show? Yes It was it was definitely interesting to play a multifaceted type deal because You know from from scene to scene you have to transform yourself and really embrace Both physically and emotionally these different characters and we went through and we did some good physical work in order to establish How you move is each character for example right before the show I'm a big fan of just just quieting myself and not really actually Focusing on the characters themselves But focusing more on the the actor side of it because it's really it's a dualistic type thing There's the actor and then there's the character And I feel like by just centering myself meditating a little bit It allows me to be open to each of these different characters I couldn't help but notice the immense amount of water used in the show. That is very interesting What was it like working with that? I could imagine totally different. Yeah. Well, it is We got wet That's that's for sure It but to be honest it actually really brought the play together We introduced it about a week and a half or two weeks ago And it really began to bring out the the the true nature of this play because like for example in one scene I'm splashing myself like crazy And it I didn't even realize how intense the scene was until the water was brought into it for such a different and unique show What made you want to choose this one? So I love Mary Zimmerman's work. She does a lot of adaptations. I love mythology I love folklore She did a production of Arabian Nights and our she'd Argonautica that I saw at Berkeley rep And I just loved and I was really interested in doing a piece of hers that I hadn't seen because I've never seen metamorphosis and like I just The first time I read the play I was I was in the library on campuses in the music library And I just started crying. I just was crying and like I'm not I'm not a balling kind of person But like that it's just such it's such a moving play But it's so funny and I think it catches you in the funny and then all of a sudden it's like oh my god I'm out. That's so moving. So I just love it buy your tickets online find us on Facebook Come see it because you can testify. It's a it's a sick show sick Well bears tonight's performance was awesome. There was crying laughter and a few surprises. Please check out metamorphosis