Périclès, Prince de Tyr

Written by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins
Performed in French
2018

Pericles is one of Shakespeare’s strangest and most heart rending plays. Périclès navigates a stormy sea of pirates, magicians, brothels, kidnappers, tournaments, plots against his life… and divine intervention from the Goddess Diana. Incest, treachery, murder, love, joy all explode in this giant theatrical firework. Yet this remarkable play has resonance far beyond the time when it was written: today’s Mediterranean is no stranger to appalling and desperate voyages.

It is a fable of a man who becomes estranged from those he loves, who slowly and miraculously becomes re-united with them, more through fate than by his efforts. It is about the mystery of love, loss and of love rediscovered after a painful and confusing absence. The embers dim and glow in one of the greatest and most moving scenes Shakespeare ever wrote.

The first performance of Périclès, Prince de Tyr was at Les Gémeaux, Sceaux, France on 8th March 2018.

“A magnificent reworking. A bolt from the blue.”
Elephant

Produced by Cheek by Jowl in a co-production with the Barbican, London; Les Gémeaux/Sceaux/Scène Nationale; Théâtre du Nord, CDN Lille-Tourcoing-Hauts de France. With support from Jeune Théâtre National-France and with thanks to The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.

Cast and creative team

Cast

Name	Character
Xavier Boiffier	Antiochus / Léonin / Bout / Lysimaque
Christophe Grégoire	Périclès / Cléon / Le Maître
Valentine Catzéflis	Antiochus’s Daughter / Marina
Cécile Leterme	Doctor / Simonide / Cérimon / Diane
Camille Cayol	Dionysa / Thaïsa / La Maquerelle
Guillaume Pottier	Fisherman / Knight / Gentleman
Martin Nikonoff	Fisherman / Knight / Gentleman

Creative Team

Role	Name
Director	Declan Donnellan
Designer	Nick Ormerod
Lighting Designer	Pascal Noël
Sound Designer	Kenan Trevien
Costume Supervisor	Angie Burns
Vocal Coach	Valérie Bezançon
Assistant Director	Marcus Roche
Associate Director	Michelangelo Marchese
Technical Director	André Neri
Lighting	Vincent Gabriel
Sound	Kenan Trevien
Wardrobe	Marina Aguilar
Assistant Stage Manager	Lucile Quinton
Consultant Producer	Les 2 Bureaux / Prima Donna
Company Manager	Sharlit Deyzac
Rehearsal & Production Photography	Patrick Baldwin

Previous performances

Previous Performances

Date	Location
11–12 June 2018	Naples, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Italy
30 May–3 June 2018	Madrid, Centro Dramático Nacional, Spain
15–19 May 2018	Lille, Théâtre du Nord, France
3–4 May 2018	Perpignan, Théâtre de l’Archipel, France
24–28 April 2018	Oxford, Oxford Playhouse, UK
6–21 April 2018	London, Barbican, UK
28–30 March 2018	Créteil, Maison des Arts de Créteil, France
7–25 March 2018	Sceaux, Les Gémeaux, Paris, France