Pericles at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

This is the final season of artistic director Mark Rylance's leadership of the repertory of the rebuilt Globe theater, and we will have the pleasure of taking in Pericles, Prince of Tyre as groundlings there. A splashy, very physical, and controversial production of a controversial play, the show, with its incessant voyaging and numerous shipwrecks in the Eastern Mediterranean, will provide rich material for both the Shakespeare and the Maritime London classes. The production mixes poetry and cirque du soleil-like acrobatics in a memorable, often hilarious version of one of Shakespeare's more ripe and puzzling tragi-comedies--a story that announces itself, in the figure of the Medieval poet Gower who returns from the grave to tell it, as both old and restorative.

We hope that actor Corin Redgrave, who starred as a very moving Pericles, will recover fully from his recent heart attack and be able to rejoin the cast.

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