Georgia Shakespeare

"It's mythic. It's artful. It's hot. It's like nothing else you'll see on a theatrical stage, and Georgia Shakespeare's Metamorphoses contains one such magical tableau after another." - Creative Loafing (Read the full review)

"Call Georgia Shakespeare's "Metamorphoses" a gift from the gods. Artistic director Richard Garner's brilliantly realized staging of the Mary Zimmerman play (based on the myths of Ovid) essentially ends the 2005-06 Atlanta theater season on a high-water mark—literally, given the much-touted centerpiece of scenic designer Tim Conley's set, a 24-foot swimming pool around and in which the actors gather to recount a dozen or so proverbial tales from Greek mythology. As it were, Garner gets the (beach) ball rolling from the very first moment of the show, and once it culminates some 90 minutes later in a haunting display of floating candles, the cumulative impact of its arresting imagery is fairly hypnotic, if not positively overwhelming." - The Sunday Paper (Read the full review)

"{You are} certain to be captivated." - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Read the full review)

"...this "Hamlet" is a prime example of what Georgia Shakespeare does best, finding the contemporaneity in the classics and staging them with the stylishness of fashion photography."

"...a brisk and uncluttered treatment that allows a fine-looking ensemble to utter the 400-year-old text in a rhythm that's easily accessible to the modern ear."

"Patterson plays Ophelia with such high-spirited physicality that you never expect her character's undoing to be so wholly sad and devastating. Her performance is heartbreaking, and Joe Knezevich's take on her brother, Laertes, is elegant to a fault. As the incestuously usurping king and queen, Tess Malis Kincaid and Brad Sherrill are more regally human than monstrously sinister. They may be evil, but they remain glamorous under pressure."

"...the production feels like seeing the oft-staged, oft-filmed story through new eyes."

"May's intriguingly emotional performance, in a way, adds a degree of difficulty to an already mountainous role, but frequently renews our understanding of the Danish prince."

"With a regal Hamlet already in repertory, Georgia Shakespeare is two-for-two this season. This is a splendid Twelfth Night." - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"...near greatness has been thrust upon us."

"...wonderfully satisfying..."

"Crystal Dickinson gets delicious mileage from the unknowing posture of Olivia, who falls for Viola-Cesario. And (Brandon) Dirden's Orsino, who is smitten with the indifferent Olivia, sets the mood with his handsomely delivered 'If music be the food of love' speech."

"The portly Bruce Evers has a good time with the aptly named Sir Toby Belch, and Tess Malis Kincaid's Maria has a lot of fun at Malvolio's expense."

"(Chris) Ensweiler and (Chris) Kayser create studies in ridiculousness from unmodulated excess."

"This is a splendid Twelfth Night."