Tuesday July 24th
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
What we did
As we continued our work in Pentapolis, where Pericles jousts and meets Thaisa, his future wife, we put the dance we’ve been working on at the beginning of each rehearsal into context. The Peri-Crew continued on through the play, finally reaching the 14 year “gap of time” that divides the play.
Quick and Quotable
From the play
ALL: The Mean Knight!
From the director
MARSHALL: I love this so much. Let me tell you how much I love it.
MARSHALL: People need to understand why you’re going to have a beard in the next scene.
From the cast
RDA CHASE: [body-doubling for cast-member Graham as Symonides] I’m the mom that runs the prom!
Production Insights
Pericles is threatened in two parallel scenes. First, King Antiochus’s riddle reveals his incest to Pericles, who cannot reveal the answer or seem ignorant without putting himself in danger. Later, Pericles believes he is being put in a similar situation by King Symonides. The audience is let in on Symonides’ jest, but Pericles reacts the same way, speaking around his intent to avoid confrontation. He reacts to Antiochus’ riddle by saying, “Few love to hear the sins they love to act, T’would braid yourself too near for me to tell it.” Later, using the same approach, he mitigates his retort to Symonides, “Even in his throat, unless it be the king, That calls me traitor, I return the lie.” Has Pericles grown?
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.