“The Amazing Adventures of Pericles” introduce us to new faces of the Comedy of Fools!!
The Amazing adventures of Pericles: Prince of Tyre By William Shakespeare, adapted by the Comedy of Fools, directed by Catriona Leger
This is the breathtaking adventure of the Prince who finds himself fleeing the anger of King Antiochus and setting out to hide from the hired killer who is pursuing him around an imaginary image of the Hellenistic world from Tarsus, to Pentapolis. They continue across the great sea to Ephesus where shipwrecks, storms and much disaster separate him from his wife (whom all believe has died) . Pericles then comes into contact with the temple of Diana and the Middle eastern world of Dr. Cermion. Fourteen years pass, Pericles’ daughter Marina has grown into a lovely young lady but before the nasty jealous Queen Dionyza can do away with Pericles’ daughter , terrifying pirates kidnap her and sell her to the brothels of Mytilene, where she is befriended by Lysimachus the kind governor. And so it goes until all are united at the end. It’s easy to immerse oneself in this humungous mixture of plots and adventures and catastrophes and encounters of the most fabulous nature that suggest a twisted sort of Odyssey where all the themes and characters of all those epic tales inflame the imagination of young men. And Shakespeare was no exception.
