In 1989, David Thacker directed the play at the Swan.Mike Gwilym played Pericles, Amanda Redman was Marina and Juliet Stevenson was Thaisa. The play was opened out so as to deal with the various locations and time intervals and was given a thoughtful and moving interpretation.
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The play was among those adapted for the BBC Television Shakespeare series and was first transmitted on 8 December 1984.Peter McEnery played Pericles Julie Peasgood was Marina. Daniels compensated for the lack of space by canny use of lighting and offstage music and sound effects. Ron Daniels directed the play in 1979 at The Other Place, an unlikely venue for such an expansive play.For the performances on the nights of the Apollo landing, Hands added a special acknowledgment of the event to Gower's lines. Susan Fleetwood doubled Thaisa and Marina (with Susan Sheers playing Marina when the two characters appear together in the final scene). Emrys James played Gower (as a Welsh bard) and Helicanus. Hands also introduced extensive doubling, which has since become a staple of productions of this play. The set was almost bare, with a hanging replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man above a bare stage. The 1969 production by Terry Hands at Stratford also received favourable reviews.The production was a success it was later viewed as a model for "coherent" or thematically unified approaches, in contrast to the postmodern or disintegrative approaches of the seventies and eighties. Geraldine McEwan played Marina Richard Johnson was Pericles and Mark Dignam was Simonides.
The scene design, by Loudon Sainthill, unified the play the stage was dominated by a large ship in which Gower related the tale to a group of sailors. In 1958, Tony Richardson directed the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford.
The play has risen somewhat in popularity since Monck, though it remains extraordinarily difficult to stage effectively, an aspect played with in Paris Belongs to Us (filmed 1957–1960). This production was revived at Stratford after the war, with Paul Scofield in the title role. Walter Nugent Monck revived the play in 1929 at his Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, cutting the first act. In accordance with Victorian notions of decorum, the play's frank treatment of incest and prostitution was muted or removed. Phelps cut Gower entirely, satisfying his narrative role with new scenes, conversations between unnamed gentlemen like those in The Winter's Tale, 5.2. It vanished from the stage for nearly two centuries, until Samuel Phelps staged a production at Sadler's Wells Theatre in Clerkenwell in 1854. Yet the play's pseudo-naive structure placed it at odds with the neoclassical tastes of the Restoration era. Thomas Betterton made his stage debut in the title role. John Rhodes staged Pericles at the Cockpit Theatre soon after the theatres re-opened in 1660 it was one of the earliest productions, and the first Shakespearean revival, of the Restoration period. A play called Pericles was in the repertory of a recusant group of itinerant players arrested for performing a religious play in Yorkshire in 1609 however, it is not clear if they performed Pericles, or if theirs was Shakespeare's play. The play was also performed at the Globe Theatre on 10 June 1631. The earliest performance of Pericles known with certainty occurred in May 1619, at Court, "in the King's great chamber" at Whitehall. The title page of the play's first printed edition states that the play was often acted at the Globe Theatre, which was most likely true. As far as is known, there was no other play with the same title that was acted in this era the usual assumption is that this must have been Shakespeare's play. The Venetian ambassador to England, Zorzi Giustinian, saw a play titled Pericles during his time in London, which ran from 5 January 1606 to 23 November 1608. Home Pericles, Prince of Tyre Wikipedia: Performance history
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