THE “METAMORPHOSES” OF A POET OVID’S EXILE IN A PLAY BY MIKHAIL BERMAN-TSIKINOVSKY
THE “METAMORPHOSES” OF A POET OVID’S EXILE IN A PLAY BY MIKHAIL BERMAN-TSIKINOVSKY

Summary/Abstract: With the play The Land of Oblivion (2007), the Russian-American dramatist Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky tries to analyze the mysterious reason that caused Ovid’s relegation on the Black Sea. On the stage, the audience discover also the great erudition of the author, who has studied in depth Roman history, custom and society: his new hypothesis is very interesting, because is connected to the exile of many Russian intellectuals under the Tsarist and the Soviet rule. The play underlines the extreme cleverness of Ovid to live in Tomi: it was not a passive acceptance of a punishment, but a real metamorphosis – a dynamic adaptation with a constant attention for the cultural dimension of the everyday life. Only in this way Ovid’s life could assume a different, but still positive, form.

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