SF Shakespeare Festival Announces Cast, Designers, & Schedule for PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
The cast that brings this epic tale to life includes Ron Chapman as the title character, Pericles.by Alexa Criscitiello
This summer s 39th Free Shakespeare in the Park production features a four-episode production of Shakespeare s epic tale, Pericles, Prince of Tyre in a new verse translation by playwright Ellen McLaughlin.
The season begins with virtual live performances of Episodes 1, 2, and 3, using the Unified Virtual Space technique developed last summer by Technical Director Neal Ormond. Episode 4 marks the long-awaited return to in-person performances in the parks.
Episode 1: The sails are filled, the seas are met begins in Antioch where a young Prince Pericles has arrived to woo the daughter of King Antiochus.
Real, imagined Berkeley celebrated in Berkeley Rep audio series ‘Place/Settings’
The East Bay company s audio series is grounded in specific sites in Berkeley, penned by writers with strong ties to the city
Lily Janiak January 8, 2021Updated: January 12, 2021, 5:47 pm
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda is seen at Jewel Lake in Berkeley. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
When playwright Philip Kan Gotanda set out to write an audio short story about Jewel Lake for Berkeley Rep’s “Place/Settings,” the Tilden Nature Area reservoir lived only in his imagination. He had never been there before.
“I happened to be reading Berkeleyside at the moment,” he recalls, of getting approached by Berkeley Rep about the new series, whose first episode premieres Tuesday, Jan. 12. Gotanda was struck by an article on the Berkeley-centric nonprofit news site about the danger that the lake would dry and what that would do to visitors’ memories of the lake.