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Director Yvonne Johnson provides a voiceover description of a dozen production photos from "the play with the swimming pool," Metamorphoses, opening tonight at the Civic's downstairs Studio Theater and running through April 17.

Ten actors portraying mythological figures like Midas, Orpheus and Hades use the water in a variety of ways: ocean, baptismal font, playpen, venue for waterboarding-like torture, river of forgetfulness, spa.