By Patricia Davis. Although it is based on Ovid's account of the myth of Philomela in "Metamorphoses", "The Love of the Nightingale" goes beyond the simple outlines of that myth. Wertenbaker asks questions about the nature of truth and our relationship to it as she explores what happens to a girl who asserts herself joyfully and fully in the world and, when ordered to submit, refuses.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:11PM on May 15, 2014