Pericles

Synopsis: Videorecording of the production by Theatre for a New Audience staged at the Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. Directed for the stage by Bartlett Sher.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 25 Feb 2004
Duration: 159 mins

Director

Bartlett Sher

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Peter John Still

Production Design

Christopher Akerlind

Costume

Elizabeth Caitlin Ward

Cast

Tim Hopper	Young Pericles (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
Linda Powell	Thaisa
Julyana Soelistyo	Marina
Kristine Nielsen	Dionyza
Christopher McCann	Antiochus
Julyana Soelistyo	Daughter of Antiochus
Kristine Nielsen	Bawd
Tim Hopper	Lord of Mytilene

Reviews: Wilborn Hampton ‘Stormy Seas, as Envisioned by Shakespeare and Whomever’, New York Times (24 February 2004). Hampton’s review includes the observation - ‘The first question that springs to mind when a new production of Pericles is announced is, ''Why?'' It is a minor play of dubious authorship, a sort of Jacobean stage version of a chase movie. A staging by the Theater for a New Audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music fails to come up with a good answer. In his lectures on Shakespeare, W. H. Auden suggested that Pericles was a play that should be performed only ''by schoolchildren with a Svengali director.''

British Universities Film & Video Council