Sorrow is a fugue in Mary Zimmerman's heartfelt adaptation of Ovid's tales of loss and transformation.

(In spirit, the movie mirrors the low-budget adaptation of Grace Paley's urban tales "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.")

Over the 2007 Christmas period Radio 4 revived the tradition of James's ghost stories for the festive period with a series of adaptations of his most popular tales.

When Mary Zimmerman's dreamlike adaptation of Ovid's tales opened in the fall, it was less than a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the show's ritualistic portrayal of love, death and transformation somehow seemed to flow directly from the collective unconscious of a stunned city.

Such were some of the unshakable visions that Mary Zimmerman introduced to New York in October when "Metamorphoses," her adaptation of Ovid's classic tales, opened Off Broadway at the Second Stage Theater.