A poetic, cinematic reimagining of the first two books of Roman author Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
In his epic narrative, completed just before his exile in 8AD, Ovid links together “into one artistically harmonious whole, all the stories of classical mythology”. Above all, he tells of extraordinary and miraculous changes and transformations, in the nature of people and of things.
In a theatrically thrilling combinations of word, sound and unexpected occurrences, STORM.1: Nothing Remains The Same takes up two of Ovid’s early stories.
NTW_STORM1_Programme_ART-copy.pdf
Co-creator & Narrator: Mike Pearson
Co-creator: Mike Brookes
Sound Designer: Mike Beer
Soundscape: John Hardy Music
Narrator: Aimee-Ffion Edwards
National Theatre Wales’ The Storm Cycle unfolds across a series of events conceived, designed and directed by our long-standing collaborator and current Associate Artist Mike Brookes.
These multimedia works are being developed and performed at different locations across Wales 2018-2020, in a variety of forms and scales, and explore two key themes; truth and testimony. They will culminate with the creation of a major, new, large-scale production for NTW’s 10th anniversary programme in 2020.
The Storm Cycle builds on the approaches and techniques that Brookes has brought to his trilogy of groundbreaking productions with NTW and Mike Pearson: The Persians (2010), Coriolan/us (2012) and Iliad (2015). Across this new journey we hope to further expand those approaches, and to open up some new possibilities – drawing on the experiences and expertise that have gathered around Brookes’ three decades of collaborative theatre-making in Wales, and also inviting and opening conversations with new collaborators and audiences.