Pericles in SPACE
reposted from g+, mostly for animate_mush
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is not a good play, but tonight it was greatly improved by:
*The "Cantina Karaoke" variety pre-show.
*The pulp scifi costumes of King Antiochus (who very nearly had EVIL stamped on his forehead) and his daughter (who had a very impressive hat).
*The six-way lightsaber battle at the birthday games of the half-Klingon Princess of Pentapolis.
*The Starfleet uniformed extras wheeling the Stargate out onto stage to let you know the next scene is set in Tarsus, while the Jedi extras cart of the the body of the dead Red Shirt.
*The captain of the ship which is wrecked the night Marina is born; and his coat, which was kind of a brownish color (notable among his sailors, a knit hat and a hawaiian shirt).
*When Marina is kidnapped by pirates (just before Dionyza's assassin/jaffa can kill her), the pirates being the entire rest of the cast besides the two of them who sweep through yelling at the top of their lungs, dressed as who knows what, except that they were led by Jack Sparrow.
*The distinctive, five-tone theme Pericles hears when he hallucinates music in Act V, before his Close Encounter with the goddess Diana.
In short, Shady Shakespeare found a way to perform Pericles and make a virtue of the play-as-it-is-written's complete disjointedness of plot, theme, time, and space: MASH UP ALL THE THINGS.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is not a good play, but tonight it was greatly improved by:
*The "Cantina Karaoke" variety pre-show.
*The pulp scifi costumes of King Antiochus (who very nearly had EVIL stamped on his forehead) and his daughter (who had a very impressive hat).
*The six-way lightsaber battle at the birthday games of the half-Klingon Princess of Pentapolis.
*The Starfleet uniformed extras wheeling the Stargate out onto stage to let you know the next scene is set in Tarsus, while the Jedi extras cart of the the body of the dead Red Shirt.
*The captain of the ship which is wrecked the night Marina is born; and his coat, which was kind of a brownish color (notable among his sailors, a knit hat and a hawaiian shirt).
*When Marina is kidnapped by pirates (just before Dionyza's assassin/jaffa can kill her), the pirates being the entire rest of the cast besides the two of them who sweep through yelling at the top of their lungs, dressed as who knows what, except that they were led by Jack Sparrow.
*The distinctive, five-tone theme Pericles hears when he hallucinates music in Act V, before his Close Encounter with the goddess Diana.
In short, Shady Shakespeare found a way to perform Pericles and make a virtue of the play-as-it-is-written's complete disjointedness of plot, theme, time, and space: MASH UP ALL THE THINGS.