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PHOTOGRAPHY BY LIZ LAUREN HOTTEST TICKET Doug Hara, Anjali Bhimani, Louise Lamson, and Heidi Stillman in Metamorphoses everything ancient is new again BOUNDARY-PUSHING DIRECTOR MARY ZIMMERMAN MOUNTS THE 10TH-ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION OF METAMORPHOSES FOR LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE. BY THOMAS CONNORS P has Anne Dudek and Doug Hara 76 MICHIGANAVEMAG.COM erhaps no theater artist has done as much for the dead white males of the Western canon as director Mary Zimmerman. She taken on Homer, Euripides, Proust, Shakespeare, and Ovid, the ninth-century poet whose rendering of Greek and Roman myth was the bane of many a high school student's senior year. But for the Northwestern-trained Zim- merman, Ovid's Metamorphoses was the perfect vehicle for her highly visual conception of the- ater, one in which simple props and décor propel a narrative with a power Cecil B. DeMille would