One of the success stories of this year's Edinburgh Festival, Pants of Fire's Ovid's Metamorphoses, leaves Scotland and heads straight for Croydon's Warehouse Theatre next week.

The theatre company has received rave reviews and award nominations for the show being hailed as it's breakthrough. GRAHAM MOODY talks to director and Pants of Fire founder, Peter Bramley.

Graham Moody: First of all Peter, you must be delighted with how the run in Edinburgh has gone and the reviews.

Peter Bramley: I have been ecstatic, it's been brilliant. We have done really well. It was nerve-racking when The Guardian's Lyn Gardner came as she is very influential but she gave us a great review. It's been every day for a month which is very tough but I was speaking to one student and she said every day she went walking around Edinburgh she has had someone come up to her saying how much they enjoyed the show. It's amazing.

GM: You were nominated for awards too weren't you?

PB: Yes, for two. One of them was very prestigious, the Carol Tamber award which we were named as winners of on Friday which is fantastic. She takes one company to New York every year, paying for their flights and accommodation and puts on the show for two or three weeks. The other four nominations were all really high calibre theatres like Sheffield Theatre so was great just to be nominated.

GM: Ovid's Metamorphoses is a 15-book Roman poem, how have you turned that into a play?

PB: It does not automatically jumps off the page as something to put on stage as it doesn't have a narrative or a through line, it's like a stream of consciousness through these many different stories about the Greek myths. The theme of every story is transformation, somebody always gets changed into something, like Narcissus becoming a flower. They try to explain nature, where we came from and how things are made. That's what we focus on in our show. We have made a bit of a narrative with the relationship between Jupiter and Juno, the King and Queen of the Gods. They keep coming back in the stories as Jupiter has had affairs with different women and Juno is a hard, jealous, cheated on woman who gets angrier and angrier and gives punishments to people.

GM: You've set it in the 1940s haven't you? Why did you decide to do that?

PB: There is something about the aesthetics of the 40s, in that the fashions and hairstyles were so different and dramatic. At the same time people didn' t have very much but were really creative. Heroes were very real things then too and Hitler was a monster. There were heroes and monsters in the Metamorphoses story so it linked. Gods and Goddesses were about too as Hollywood film stars were looked up to as if they were Gods and Goddesses.

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Warehouse Theatre, Dingwall Road, September 8 to October 3, various times, £12. Call 020 8680 4060 or visit warehousetheatre.co.uk.