Pericles

By William Shakespeare Sponsored by Dominion Energy Artistic Staff

Director Kent Thompson Scenic Designer Apollo Mark Weaver Costume Designer Kärin Simonson Kopischke Lighting Designer Michael Gilliam Sound Designer/Original Music Composer Lindsay Jones Music Director Brandon Scott Grayson Dramaturg Isabel Smith-Bernstein Voice and Text Coach Philip Thompson Fight Director Paul Dennhardt

Movement Director and Choreographer Jason Spelbring Intimacy Director Caitlyn Herzlinger Stage Manager Jade Bruno* Assistant Stage Manager Kelsey James*

Scene: Several eastern Mediterranean countries There will be one intermission.

Cast

Gower, as Chorus René Thornton Jr.*

Antiochus, king of Antioch Todd Denning* Antiochus’s Daughter Sarah Suzuki Pericles, prince of Tyre Danforth Comins*

Thaliard, a lord of Antioch Cordell Cole

Helicanus, a lord of Tyre Perry Ojeda*

Cleon, governor of Tarsus Michael A. Harding Dionysa, wife to Cleon Kristina C. Harding First Fisherman Perry Ojeda* Second Fisherman Aidan O’Reilly* Third Fisherman Michael A. Harding, Simonides, king of Pentapolis Chris Mixon* Thaisa, daughter to Simonides Desirée Mee Jung* Marshal Todd Denning* Knights Cordell Cole, Jovan Davis, Mauricio Miranda

Lychorida, nurse to Marina Sarah Shippobotham Ship Master Michael A. Harding Sailor Connor Padilla Cerimon, a doctor of Ephesus Aidan O’Reilly* Gentlemen of Ephesus Cordell Cole, Todd Denning* Philemon, servant to Cerimon Chris Mixon*

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Marina, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa Sarah Suzuki Leonine, servant to Dionyza Marco Antonio Vega Pirates Trent Dahlin, Jovan A. Davis, Mauricio Miranda Pander Chris Mixon* Bawd Sarah Shippobotham Bolt, Pander’s servant Todd Denning*

Lysimachus, governor of Mytilene Cordell Cole Diana, a goddess Kristina C. Harding Diana Priestess Sarah Shippobotham Suppliants Perry Ojeda*, Sarah Suzuki Ladies Kristina C. Harding, Sarah Shippobotham, Sarah Suzuki Antiochus’s Soldiers Jovan A. Davis, Mauricio Miranda Lords to Cleon Jovan A. Davis, Mauricio Miranda Lord to Simonides Marco Antonio Vega Lords to Pericles Aidan O’Reilly*, Connor Padilla, Sarah Shippobotham, Mauricio Miranda

Understudies

Ian Allred—Helicanus/Fisherman/Ensemble; Finley Caciola†—Pirate/Ensemble; Lena Conatser— Bawd/Diana Priestess/ Lychorida/Ensemble; Jovan A. Davis—Gower; Trent Dahlin—Lysimachus/ Thaliard/Ensemble; Aaron Galligan-Stierle*—Antiochus/Bolt/Marshall/Pander/Philemon/ Simonides/Ensemble; Shannon Galligan-Stierle—Diana/Dionyza/Ensemble; Luke Sidney Johnson— Pericles; Mauricio Miranda—Cleon/Fisherman/Master/Ensemble; Connor Padilla—Pirate/Ensemble; Andrew Plinio—Cerimon/Fisherman/Ensemble; Daria Pilar Redus—Antiochus’s/Daughter/Marina/ Ensemble; Olivia Rylan Sham†—Thaisa Understudies never substitute for listed players unless an announcement is made prior to the performance.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The director and the fight director are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

The scenery, costume, sound, and lighting designers are represented by the United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE.

Videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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The Story of the Play

Pericles, prince of Tyre, is one of the suitors for the hand of the beautiful daughter of Antiochus, king of Antioch. To win her hand, Pericles must solve a riddle or be executed. Pericles deciphers the shameful answer to the riddle and, fearing for his life, hastens home. Terrified that Antiochus’s wrath will follow him, he decides to “go travel for a while.” His first destination is famine-stricken Tarsus where he brings a shipload of provisions to rulers Cleon and Dionyza. Then he puts to sea for parts unknown. In a terrible storm at sea, his ship is wrecked leaving Pericles as the only survivor. He is saved by three fishermen when he is cast up on the shore of Pentapolis, the kingdom of King Simonides. Hearing that the king is about to give a tournament in honor of his daughter Thaisa’s birthday, Pericles enters the tourney. Thaisa and Pericles fall in love at first sight, and Thaisa tells her father of her choice. King Simomides sees the young lovers quickly married. Pericles and Thaisa—now pregnant— live quietly at Pentapolis for several months. Helicanus, who has been ruling wisely in Tyre in the absence of

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Pericles, sends word that Antiochus has died and so it is finally safe for Pericles to return home. Pericles reveals to his new family that he is a king and plans to journey home. Tragedy strikes on the stormy voyage to Tyre when Thaisa dies giving birth to a daughter. Yielding to the sailors’ superstitions, Pericles throws her entombed body overboard. The coffin is found by a priest of Diana at Ephesus; and the priest finds Thaisa is not dead, restores her to health, and installs her as (assuming all is lost) a priestess of Diana. Meanwhile Pericles leaves his new daughter, Marina, and her nurse, Lychorida, with the governor of Tarsus, Cleon. Cleon and his wife Dionyza agree to raise Marina along with their own daughter. After living with Cleon eighteen years, Marina grows so talented at arts and music that she outshines Dionyza’s own daughter; so Dionyza arranges for her murder. Marina’s circumstance seems dire until she is captured from her murderer by pirates. The pirates take her to sea and then sell her to a brothel in Mytilene. Marina refuses to become a prostitute and uses her virtues to cause all her would-be customers to reform their ways. Her father, in the meantime, visits Tarsus, and is so grief-stricken at the news of Marina’s supposed death that Pericles refuses to cut his hair or speak ever again. The sorrowing Pericles, sailing for Tyre, is blown by the wind to Mytilene. The governor of Mytilene, Lysimachus, boards Pericles’s ship to try and help the grieving king. Lysimachus is a patron of Marina’s school for the arts and suggests she can help King Pericles to heal. With surprise and great jubilation, he recognizes his lost daughter. Soon after, Pericles has a vision of the goddess Diana who urges him to go to her Temple in Ephesus where he must tell his story. Pericles and Marina arrive in Ephesus and find Thaisa there. After eighteen trying years, the family is joyfully reunited.

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