WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MARY ZIMMERMAN
BASED ON THE CLASSIC CHINESE FABLE
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
MAIN SEASON • RODA THEATRE
NOVEMBER 9–DECEMBER 30, 2012  
WORLD-PREMIERE PRODUCTION

Mary Zimmerman is mesmerizing. From Metamorphoses to The Arabian Nights, audiences have embraced her enchanting adaptations of epic tales. Now the Tony Award-winning director casts a spell with The White Snake, a classic romance from Chinese legend. As she falls for a charming young man, a snake spirit discovers what it means to be human. But a monk objects, and the bride must unveil her magical powers to save their love. With the alluring and hypnotic White Snake, Zimmerman unwraps another exquisite gift for the holidays.

THE BUZZ

“Zimmerman has the kind of transforming theatrical touch that reconnects audiences to what live theater is all about. Mystery, magic, a heightened awareness of the physical, music, spectacle and a showman’s audacity.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Tony-winning theater alchemist Mary Zimmerman has become famous for breathing fresh life into primal fables, fromMetamorphoses to Argonautika. Time and again, she reconnects us to the myths and fables dancing at the edges of our collective subconscious.”—San Jose Mercury News

“Terrific…Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman’s moving world-premiere production already has audiences grasping for appropriate superlatives. The work is a remarkable piece of theatrical imagination, the kind Zimmerman has specialized in with productions such as Metamorphoses, Argonautika, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and Arabian Nights…Zimmerman has created an epic tale of love and sacrifice with spectacular visual appeal, plenty of humor and remarkable emotional depth.”—Sacramento Bee

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