The impressive series of twenty-four fairy tales by Ted Hughes from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1997 and was honored in The Times by Michael Hofmann as "one of the great works of the century." Tim Supple and Simon Reade have transformed ten of the stories from Hughes' version of the greatest classically inspired poem for the stage. Erotic, elegant, violent, and enchanting, this dramatization reveals the immense power of Hughes' original text, which has already been recognized as a literary milestone.