Spanning decades and traversing the ancient Mediterranean like some deeply misbegotten Carnival Cruise, this Shakespeare play mingles comedy, tragedy and Christian allegory.
There are two assassination plots, two shipwrecks, a brothel, a riddle, a tournament and some very convenient pirates.
A devised theater ensemble founded by half a dozen Brown MFA graduates, Fiasco has a soft spot for Shakespeare’s less loved works.
Rather than relying on the published text of “Pericles,” Fiasco has set much of the poetry to music — sometimes supplying original words — and interpolated passages from a prose version by George Wilkins, a pamphleteer and publican.
Ben Steinfeld, a company member and the director, stages this revised text at Classic Stage Company using Fiasco’s poor-theater playbook — a mostly bare stage furnished with charisma, invention, spirit and song.
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Pericles ”, Ben Jonson, Fiasco, ”, Verona, “ Pericles, ” Fiasco, George Wilkins, Wilkins, disbelieve, Shakespeare, Ben Steinfeld
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