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Post date: Jan 17, 2012 11:17:36 PM
Pericles is a Shakespeare play with everything: dancing knights, revolutionary fishermen, frisky kings (and their frisky daughters), gods, nuns, whores, virgins... everything but the kitchen sink.
If it seems like this is a pot with too many cooks, that's because it was: Pericles was a collaboration between George Wilkins and William Shakespeare. The Rude Mechanicals, always happy to take an idea and run with it, give you exactly that in Pericles: Shakespeare vs. Wilkins. We put the two authors on stage and let them fight it out (literally!) for control of the discombobulating plot.
Director Joshua Engel has previously brought the Rudes an all-female Much Ado About Nothing and a disco-dancing Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. This time, he's presenting Pericles as a rambunctious farce where even the actors don't know how it's all going to turn out.
Pericles: Shakespeare vs Wilkins, by George Wilkins and William Shakespeare.
Presented by The Rude Mechanicals
Jan. 13, 14, 20, and 21, 8 PM
Black Box Theatre at Howard County Center for The Arts
8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043
Tickets $15 regular, $12 students and seniors.
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