Tuesday July 23rd
Show Title: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Director: Marshall B Garrett
Assistant Directors: Chase O’Neill and Olivia Pedigo
Production Intern: Abraham Joyner-Meyers
Rehearsal Room: Hunt and Blackfriars
What we did
In our morning rehearsal, our cast built the tournament scene, where Pericles, washed up on shore after our play’s first shipwreck, jousts as a stranger. The story reaches a certain level of resolution, which we destroyed in the evening as the cast worked together with the architecture of the Blackfriars to create the play’s second shipwreck. We also had a visit from ASC cast member Brandon Carter, who coached the Peri-People in using their voices in the theater itself.
Quick and Quotable
From the play
GOWER: On Neptunes billow, the grisled north
Disgorges such a tempest forth,
From the director
MARSHALL: To wreck a ship, what do you have to do? Boom! Build a ship.
MARSHALL: This pile of dirt just talked to you! This is your chance to react!
From the cast
CAMPER: Pericles, the Greek Geek.
CAMPER: Hope just rapped the entire first Gower speech!
Production Insights
Pericles tourneys with five knights in Pentapolis, each with his own crest and motto. The knight representing Antioch carries a shield displaying a “wreath of chivalry” emblazoned with the phrase “me pompae provexit apex” [roughly, “the crown of glory has carried me”]. Another knight carries a shield decorated with an upside down torch. Pericles wears armor dragged out of the sea by fisherman. We have chosen to take his emblem, a withered branch, literally, arming our titular knight with a staff.
Abraham Joyner-Meyers
Abraham Joyner-Meyers is a fiddler, a juggler, and a huge Shakespeare nerd. He completed watching the Shakespearean canon in the fall after seeing ASC’s production of The Fall of King Henry (Henry VI, Part 3). His passion for the Bard also led him to attend ASCTC for two summers, where he acted in Two Gentleman of Veronaand Much Ado About Nothing. When Abe is not furiously reading, seeing, or acting in Shakespeare plays, he’ll often be found teaching himself to play new instruments, dancing at contras and with Morris teams, or training with his school archery team. He just completed his freshman year in the dual degree program between Harvard University and Berklee College of Music.