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“The Amazing Adventures of Pericles” introduce us to new faces of the Comedy of Fools!!

“The Amazing Adventures of Pericles” introduce us to new faces of the Comedy of Fools!!

 

A Company of Fools presents Pericles, Prince of Tyre, in parks across Ottawa, July 4 to August 20, 2016. From left to right: Mekdes Teshome, Mary Ellis, AL Connors, Jennifer Cecil l to r: Mekdes Teshome (standing), Mary Ellis, AL Connors, Jennifer Cecil. Credit: Andrew Alexander Photography Goes with 0706 review fools
A Company of Fools presents Pericles, Prince of Tyre, in parks across Ottawa, July 4 to August 20, 2016. From left to right: Mekdes Teshome, Mary Ellis, AL Connors, Jennifer Cecil l to r: Mekdes Teshome (standing), Mary Ellis, AL Connors, Jennifer Cecil. Credit: Andrew Alexander

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.

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