Pericles

Folger Theatre
201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington

Pericles sets sail on an extraordinary journey through the decades and is blown from the coasts of Phoenicia to Greece and to Turkey. Chased by the King of Antioch, Pericles finds his true love in Thaisa and loses her and their daughter Marina on the rough seas. Directed by Joseph Haj (Hamlet at Folger Theatre, 2010), this production incorporates striking visual projections and live music composed by Tony Award-winner Jack Herrick to stage a Pericles that has been hailed as “magical, must-see Pericles” (The Oregonian). This production of Pericles was originally produced at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Bill Rauch, Artistic Director, Cynthia Rider, Executive Director.

Thru - Dec 20, 2015

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MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...Shakespeare’s Pericles was apparently very popular in its heyday, but it is easy to see why staging it today requires some inventiveness. A rather one-dimensional narrative of the travails of the fictional, seafaring King Pericles, the play falls somewhere between the realistic and the fantastical and, unfortunately, never quite masters either. There are too many sea-voyages and too few explorations of what drives the characters. There may be a mystical aspect that blends well with some passionate romance, but they don’t sit well with the many unexplored characters and an overly earthy rendering of life in a brothel."

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- Kate Wingfield

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