Venus and Adonis

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Rob Melrose
April 27, 2014

Presented as a one-woman piece featuring Cutting Ball Associate Artist Ponder Goddard, this long poem from Shakespeare, inspired by a passage from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, depicts the love between the goddess Venus and the hunter Adonis. Celebrated for its visionary use of shifting perspective and shocking sexuality, Shakespeare’s poem showcases both the Bard’s unparalleled command of language and profound insight into the nature of love. Venus and Adonis will take place the weekend following Shakespeare’s 450th birthday.

The Cutting Ball Theater’s 2015-16 season is made possible in part by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The RHE Charitable Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The San Francisco Foundation, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Season Producers John and Paula Gambs, Ken Melrose, and Velia Melrose.