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<p> Smart, fresh, endlessly imaginative and thoroughly enjoy-able. --Chicago Tribune

Smart, fresh, endlessly imaginative and thoroughly enjoy-able. --Chicago Tribune

Smart, fresh, endlessly imaginative and thoroughly enjoy-able. --Chicago Tribune With her trademark focus on the wisdom of mythology, auteur director Mary Zimmerman adapts the sprawling jour-ney of Jason and the Argonauts into a spare, lucid, elegant show. --Variety A thoroughly engaging version of a timelessly entertaining myth as told by a theatrical imagination of mythic propor-tions. --San Francisco Chronicle

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Mary Zimmerman’s credits as an adapter and a director include Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights, The Odyssey, Journey to the West (all published by Northwestern) and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Her work has been produced at the Lookingglass Theatre and Goodman Theatre of Chicago; on Broadway at Circle in the Square; in New York at Second Stage, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Manhattan Theatre Club; and at many other major regional theaters around the country and abroad. She has also directed at the Metropolitan Opera. Zimmerman is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and won a Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses. She is a professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, USA>

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