2004 Spriog Seasoo Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents the Theatre for a New Audience Jeffrey Horowitz Dorothy Ryan Artistic Director Managing Director Theodore C. Rogers Chairman of the Board production of Pericles Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Feb 12-14,17,19-21,24-28,2004 at 7:30pm 2 hours and 50 Feb 15 & 22 at 3pm minutes with one By William Shakespeare intermission Directed by Bartlett Sher Set and lighting designed by Christopher Akerlind Costumes designed by Elizabeth Caitlin Ward Sound design and music composition by Peter John Still Theatre for a New Audience dedicates this production of Pericles to the memories of John S. Halpern and Earl Hindman BAM 2004 Spring Season is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. Time Warner is the 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 with additional support from Francena T Harrison Foundation Trust, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust. Reception support is provided by Theodore C. Rogers. BAM thanks Theatre Development Fund for its support of this season. 1/ Pericles Cast in order of appearance Brenda Wehle* Gower / Lychorida, nurse to Marina / Diana , a goddess Christopher McCann* Antiochus , King of Antioch / Poor Man / Pericles, fourteen years later Tim Hopper* Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Lysimachus, Governor of Mytilene Julyana Soelistyo* Daughter of Antiochus / Marina , daughter to Pericles and Thaisa Graham Winton * Thaliard, a Lord of Antioch / Leonine, servant to Dionyza / Knight of Athens / Gentleman Glenn Fleshler* Lord / Sailor / 1st Fisherman / Waiter / Gentleman / Philemon, Servant to Cerimon / 1st Pirate Bruce Turk* Lord / Sailor / 2nd Fisherman / Waiter / Gentleman / 2nd Pirate Albert Jones* Lord / Sailor / 3rd Fisherman / Knight of Antioch / Gentleman / Servant / 3rd Pirate Philip Goodwin * Helicanus, a Lord of Tyre / Marshal / Cerimon , a Lord of Ephesus Robert LuPone* Cleon, Governor of Tharsus / Pandar Kristine Nielsen * Dionyza , wife to Cleon / Bawd Paul Niebanck* Lord / Sailor / Knight of Sparta / Servant Andrew Weems* Simonides, King of Pentapolis / Boult, servant to Pandar Linda Powell * Thaisa, daughter to Simonides Recorded vocals: Music of the Spheres / Voices of the Temple of Diana Kristina Boerger , Jolle Greenleaf, Robert Isaacs Setting Act I: The Mediterranean in ancient times Act II: Fourteen years have passed Additional Viola da gamba, guitar Carlene Stober production Dramaturg Ben Nadler credits Vocal coach Deborah Hecht Movement Marcela Lorca Casting director Deborah Brown Production stage manager Judith Schoenfeld* Assistant stage manager Missy Guisinger* Production managers Nick Schwartz-Hall , Vincent J. DeMarco General manager Jessica Niebanck * Member of Actors' Equity Association , the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Major support for Theatre for a New Audience's season and programs is provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, The Charles A. Dana Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Educational Foundation of America, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Audrey Heffernan Meyer and Danny Meyer. Theodore C. Rogers, Samuel H. Scripps, Vivendi Universal, and The Shubert Foundation. Theatre for a New Audience's season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts-a state agency, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Pericles Synopsis as a mere rustic knight, Pericles wins the day's events and catches the eye of Thaisa, the Pericles, the Prince of Tyre is in Antioch looking king's daughter. Pericles and Thaisa fall in love, for a wife and enters a contest of wits. If he marry, and conceive a child. When news of the can answer King Antiochus' riddle, he will win deaths of Antiochus and his daughter reaches the king's beautiful daughter in marriage. If Penta polis, Pericles and Thaisa set sail back to he fails, the young Prince will lose his life. Tyre. To the king's shock and Pericles' horror, he solves the riddle uncovering a dreadful secret: Pericles' ship is caught in another storm. King Antiochus and his daughter are in an Thaisa seemingly dies in child birth, and incestuous relationship. following a superstition, the sailors demand that Pericles toss Thaisa overboard. Depressed Fearing for his life, Pericles flees to Tyre. He is and aware that his baby (Marina) needs care, pursued by concerns, doubts, and Antiochus' Pericles heads for Tharsus. There, he leaves assassin. Pericles sees as inevitable his own Marina with King Cleon and Queen Dionyza, violent death and the invasion of his city by the where she will be looked after. Thaisa's body much larger Antioch. He also cannot cleanse washes ashore in Ephesus. She is revived by a the taint of corruption from himself. Taking the doctor named Cerimon and becomes a priest­ advice of his trusted adviser Helicanus, Pericles ess in the service of the goddess Diana. flees. First he relieves a famine in Tharsus, gaining the friendship and admiration of Cleon Fourteen years pass. Marina has grown into a and Dionyza, the city's ruling couple. Feeling beautiful woman who overshadows Dionyza's restless after a statue is erected in his honor, daughter in every way. Driven insane by Pericles returns to the sea where his fortunes jealousy, the Queen orders the murder of her change once again. young charge . Pericles travels back to Tharsus to collect Marina, but is told she is dead. Being the only survivor of a shipwreck, Pericles Nearly mad with melancholy, he wanders at washes up on the shore of Penta polis and is sea. By chance Pericles comes ashore where rescued by kindly fishermen. They find his Marina now lives and she restores Pericles to ancestral armor and send him to a tournament health. They sail to the temple of Diana where hosted by the good King Simonides. Perceived Pericles discovers his wife, Thaisa, alive. Perspectives "The peculiar power and universality of Pericles and the subsequent romances, it seems to me, has less to do with with their 'conventional' or 'mythic' or 'archetypal' dimension than with their medieval dimension. Or perhaps the two are finally inseparable and the same, to the extent that the apparent crudeness and naivete of such plays is the condition of their power and universality." -Howard Felprin, This Great Miracle: Pericles "For poetry is now expected to make, rather than to bind and harmonize, his [Shakespeare's] story [Pericles]. The quality which formerly interpenetrated the story now is the story... We have poetry, as It were , writing Itself and are to see what new thing unfolds. The resulting work will be nearer faery-lore than realistic drama .. " -G. Wilson Knight, On The Writing of Pericles "What seas what shores what granite islands towards my timbers And woodthrush calling through the fog My daughter." - T.S. Eliot, from his poem Marina 111 ..3 Who's Who Glenn Fleshier 's (Lord , Sailor, 1st Fisherman, (BSC) , Edward II, The Threepenny Opera Waiter, Gentleman, Philemon, 1st Pirate) (ACT) , As You Uke It, and Scapin (California Theater for a New Audience (TFANA) work Shakespeare Festival). TV/film work includes includes The Changeling and King John. He Law & Order: S. V u. , All My Children , Guiding has worked at New York Shakespeare Festival, Ught, and Proud. He earned an MFA at Cherry Lane, Jewish Rep, Shakespeare American Conservatory Theatre. Theatre, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, McCarter, Mark Taper, and Berkshire Theatre Festival. TV Robert LuPone (Cleon , Pandar) is President of appearances include Third Watch (recurring), the Board of ART/NY as well as Artistic Director Law & Order, Sex and the City , Law & Order: of MCC Theater in New York City. S. V u., and The Job , and in films- A Price Above Rubies, Garmento, and 30 Days. He Christopher McCann (Antiochus; Poor Man; holds an MFA from New York University. Pericles, fourteen years later) has performed in TFANA's productions of Richard II & III, The Philip Goodwin (Helicanus, Marshal , Cerimon) Changeling. Other New York productions has appeared in TFANA productions of include Attempts on Her Life , True Love , Lydie Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida, and Henry VI Breeze, Impossible Marriage, A Dybbuk, The (Drama Desk Nomination). On Broadway, he Ughts , Buried Child, Mad Forest, and The has appeared in The Diary of Anne Frank, The Devils. Films include Sidney Lu met's Strip School for Scandal, and Tartuffe; and off­ Search, Mind the Gap, Acts of Worship; TV Broadway in The Trestle at Pope Uck Creek , work includes Now and Again , Law & Order, A Ught Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW); Path to Paradise, and Rockabye. Hamlet (Publi c); and Drowning (Signature). Regional venues include The Shakespeare Paul Niebanck (Lord , Sailor, Knight of Sparta, Theatre, DC; Hartford Stage; Great Lakes Servant) off-Broadway has performed in The Theatre Fest; Guthrie Theatre; Intiman Theatre; American Clock (Signature); Richard III, The and The Acting Company. Seagull, The Country Wife (Pearl); and Leaving Queens (Women's Project). Regional venues Tim Hopper (Pericles, Prince of Tyre; include Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Huntington Lysimachus) makes his TFANA debut. Last Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, spring, he appeared in Richard Greenberg's St. Louis Rep, Missouri Rep , Delaware Theatre The Violet Hour at Steppenwolf Theatre in Company. He received an MFA from the Yale Chicago, where he is an ensemble member. School of Drama . Off-Broadway credits include More Stately Mansions, New York Theater Workshop (Obie Kristine Nielsen (Dionyza, Bawd) has Award) and The Dying Gaul, Vineyard Theatre.