BAM Presents the Theatre for a New Audience Production of Shakespeare’s Pericles, Directed by Bartlett Sher

Engagement Marks BAM Debut of Theatre for a New Audience

BAM 2004 Spring Season is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

Time Warner is a major sponsor for Pericles.

BAM Presents the Theatre for a New Audience Production of Pericles By William Shakespeare Directed by Bartlett Sher

Scenic and lighting design by Christopher Akerlind Costume design by Elizabeth Caitlin Ward Sound design and music composition by Peter John Still

BAM Harvey Theater Feb 12-14*, 17, 19–21, 24–28 at 7:30pm Feb 15* & 22 at 3pm Tickets: $25, 40, 60 *previews

BAMdialogue with Bartlett Sher Feb 24 at 6pm BAM Rose Cinemas Tickets $8 ($4 for Friends of BAM)

Theatre for a New Audience Symposium on Pericles Feb 22, post performance BAM Harvey Theater Free admission “How do you sustain an audience’s interest?…The American company Theatre for a New Audience…suggests a simple answer: by sheer winning chutzpah and total belief in the power of storytelling.” -The Independent (Nov 28, 2001)

Brooklyn, NY/Jan 9, 2004—Theatre for a New Audience (Jeffrey Horowitz, artistic director), the off-Broadway theater company dedicated to revitalizing Shakespeare and other classic drama, marks its 25th anniversary this year. With Bartlett Sher—who recently directed the company’s critically acclaimed productions of and Don Juan—Theatre for a New Audience offers an inventive approach to Shakespeare’s Pericles in a production which marks the company’s BAM debut.

Sher (named “an indispensable interpreter of classics” by Time Out New York), splits the title role, using two actors to portray Pericles’ fourteen-year transformation, as well as double-casting several of the primary roles— dramatic devices that brilliantly underscore the play’s intrinsic symmetries. The production strips the play of its customary spectacle, suggesting its atmosphere through only essential elements. Translucent curtains flank an aquamarine mosaic floor; live music, based on Greek and Western hymnals, complements the minimalist, yet elegant, décor. It’s an approach reminiscent of Peter Brook at his most succinct, and one that serves the narrative beautifully.

Presented in the style of a fable, Pericles is a journey-filled romance evoking the mysteries of an ancient Middle East. The most frequently produced play during Shakespeare’s lifetime, it is also one of his most satisfying—a haunting and spiritually restorative work.

Founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz, Theatre for a New Audience finds the contemporary heart of the classics in its productions for off-Broadway, national, and international audiences. The company maintains relationships with some of the leading American and European directors, actors, designers, and composers, including , Sir Peter Hall, Robert Woodruff, Mark Rylance, and Bartlett Sher, among others. It has an ongoing collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company; with Cymbeline, directed by Bartlett Sher, Theatre for a New Audience became the first American theater company to be invited to bring a production of Shakespeare to the RSC. The company has been honored with awards and nominations including the Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, OBIE, and Tony. Theatre for a New Audience’s The Green Bird (directed by Julie Taymor) opened on Broadway in April 2000, and its 1994 production of , also directed by Taymor, was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange.

Bartlett Sher (director) has served as artistic director of Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Washington since 2000. He has received national and international recognition for his work as a classical director, and was honored in 2002 with a Joe A. Callaway Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation for Theatre for a New Audience’s Cymbeline. At Intiman, Sher directed ’s Homebody/Kabul and the world premiere of Joan Holden’s Nickel and Dimed, which transferred to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In New York, his credits include Theatre for a New Audience’s Don Juan and the American premiere of Waste (winner of the 2000 for Best Play), as well as The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights’ Horizons. In addition to directing and lecturing at theaters nationwide, Sher formerly was the associate artistic director at Hartford Stage Company, company director at The , and associate artist at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. His upcoming productions include Mourning Becomes Electra for and New York City Opera (his opera-directing debut), and The Light in the Piazza for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

About the cast Kristine Nielsen (Dionyza, Bawd). Broadway: The Green Bird, Jackie: An American Life, The Iceman Cometh (’85). Off-Broadway: Several productions including The Green Bird , and Measure for Measure (TFANA), Omnium Gatherum (Variety Arts), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award), Dog Opera (Obie Award). TV: Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch. Film: Small Time Crooks.

Glen Fleshler (1st Fisherman, Philemon, Lord, Pirate, Waiter). TFANA: The Changeling, King John. Other: NYSF, Cherry Lane, Jewish Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, McCarter, Mark Taper, Berkshire Theatre Festival. TV: Third Watch (recurring), Law & Order, Sex and the City, Law & Order: S.V.U., The Job. Films: A Price Above Rubies, Garmento, 30 Days. M.F.A from N.Y.U.

Philip Goodwin (Helicanus, Cerimon, Marshal). TFANA: Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida and Henry VI (Drama Desk Nomination). Broadway: The Diary of Anne Frank, The School for Scandal, Tartuffe. Off- Broadway: The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW); Hamlet (Public); Drowning (Signature). Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre, DC, Hartford Stage, Great Lakes Theatre Fest, Guthrie Theatre, Intiman Theatre, The Acting Company.

Tim Hopper (Young Pericles, Lysimachus). TFANA debut. Last spring, he appeared in Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago where he is an ensemble member. Off-B'way credits include: More Stately Mansions, New York Theatre Workshop (Obie Award); The Dying Gaul, Vineyard Theatre. Film: School of Rock, Personal Velocity, Pipe Dream, To Die For, among others.

Albert Jones (3rd Fisherman, Lord, 3rd Pirate, Gentleman, Knight of Antioch, Servant). Broadway: Henry IV (LCT), Off Broadway: Iphigeneia at Aulis, Richard III (Pearl), Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Portland Center Stage), (BSC), Edward II, The Threepenny Opera (ACT), As You Like It, Scapin (California Shakespeare Festival). TV/Film: Law & Order: S.V.U., All My Children, Guiding Light, Proud. M.F.A. American Conservatory Theatre.

Robert LuPone (Cleon, Pandar). Broadway: True West, A Thousand Clowns, A View From the Bridge, Swing, St. Joan, Nefertiti, A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway: Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Black Angel, Lennon, Snow Orchid. Regional: Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Arena Stage, Williamstown, Goodman etc. TV/Film includes: Law & Order, Sex in the City, The Sopranos, All My Children, Dead Presidents, Jesus Christ Superstar. Mr. LuPone is President of the Board of ART/NY as well as Artistic Director of MCC Theater in New York City.

Christopher McCann (Pericles, King of Antioch, Poor Man). TFANA: Richard II & III, The Changeling. Attempts on Her Life, True Love, Lydie Breeze, Impossible Marriage, A Dybbuk, The Lights, Buried Child, Mad Forest, The Devils. Many regional theaters. Film: Sidney Lumet’s Strip Search, Mind the Gap, Acts of Worship. TV: Now and Again, Law & Order, Path to Paradise, Rockabye.

Paul Niebanck (Guard, Knight of Sparta, Lord). Off Broadway: The American Clock (Signature Theatre Company), Richard III, The Seagull, The Country Wife (Pearl Theatre Company), Leaving Queens (Women’s Project). Regional: Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, St. Louis Rep, Missouri Rep, Delaware Theatre Company. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Linda Powell (Thaisa). New York credits: Love’s Labours Lost (TFANA), The Odyssey, Wilder, Wilder, Wilder (Tony nomination, Best Revival), Jar the Floor (Second Stage), Dearborn Heights (EST). Regional: Uncle Vanya at A.R.T. (Irini nomination , Best Actress), Arena Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage, Long Wharf, Williamstown, and the O’Neill Center.

Julyana Soelistyo (Marina, Daughter of Antiochus, Poor Man). Portrayed Makaria and Alcmene in Children of Herakles, director: Peter Sellars—Cambridge, Bottrop, Rome, Paris. Originated title role of Golden Child by David Hwang, director: —Public/NYSF, Kennedy Center and Broadway—Tony nomination/Clarence Derwent Award. Other collaborations: Ariel in The Tempest with Blair Brown, Fool for Harris Yulin’s Lear. Sister Fetus in Bringing Out the Dead for Martin Scorsese.

Bruce Turk (2nd Fisherman, 2nd Sailor, Lord, 2nd Pirate, Waiter, Gentleman). TFANA: King John, Titus Andronicus, The Green Bird. Broadway: The Green Bird (title role), Juan Darien. Off-Broadway: Regional: Shakespeare Theatre, McCarter Theatre/Seattle Rep, Denver Center, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva, NJSF, Market Theatre, Remains Theatre, Prince Music Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. TV/Film: Third Watch, Garmento, Midnight Spin. Tadashi Suzuki’s Acting Co., Mito, Japan.

Andrew Weems (Simonides, Boult). has performed extensively at TFANA, New York, across the country, and overseas. This performance is for the old man.

Brenda Wehle (Gower, Lychorida, Diana). Most recently portrayed Celia in Talking Heads at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Ms. Wehle has been working in theatre for 23 years, 11 of those spent at the Guthrie Theatre. Her recent TV: American Dreams, and Judging Amy. Films include Soldier and Bug.

Graham Winton (Thailiard, Leonine, Knight of Athens, Gentleman). TFANA: Don Juan, Julius Caesar. Broadway: The Tempest, Two Shakespearean Actors. Off-Broadway: The Winters Tale, Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, King John (all NYSF); The Doctor’s Dilemma (Roundabout). Regional: Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Syracuse Stage, Guthrie, NJ Shakespeare. Film: Gettysburg, Blonde Fist. TV: Law and Order, Bull, NY Undercover, Swift Justice.

Credits BAM 2004 Spring Season is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. Programming in the BAM Harvey Theater is endowed by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Time Warner is a major sponsor for Pericles. Leadership support for BAM Theater is provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

BAM thanks its donors and sponsors, including New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York City Council, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Richard B. Fisher & Jeanne Donovan Fisher, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Starr Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Inc., The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Lepercq Foundation, R/GA, and The SHS Foundation.

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