Science Fiction Pericles

At Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Pericles boldly goes where no Pericles has gone before. Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips discusses how his space-age setting for Shakespeare's underrated Romance is weirdly more relatable than the maritime travel in the original; how they've changed very little language (apart from some references of ‘sea’ to ‘sky’); how there's nothing new under the sun (from any galaxy); how he and his cast are playing it straight and not campy or spoofy; how companies don't program Pericles unless they have a passion for it, which always shows; how this bucket-list show gives both actors and audiences the opportunity to complete their personal canons; and the rewards of producing a less-well-known play that carries less baggage for audiences than, say, Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. (Length 21:33) The post Science Fiction Pericles appeared first on Reduced Shakespeare Company.