{"id":81,"date":"2009-03-17T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=81"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:52","slug":"the-department-of-theater-presents-pericles-prince-of-tyre-march-27-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2009\/03\/17\/the-department-of-theater-presents-pericles-prince-of-tyre-march-27-29\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Theater presents PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE March 27-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swarthmore College Department of Theater&#8217;s Production Ensemble presents William Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Pericles, Prince of Tyre<\/em> on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28 at 8 pm and Sunday, March 29 at 2 pm in the Frear Ensemble Theater, Lang Performing Arts Center (LPAC). A cast of fifteen offer a fresh telling of Shakespeare&#8217;s epic tale of one man&#8217;s journey through the exotic islands and ancient cities of a mythic Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>As Pericles, and then his daughter, quest to find what&#8217;s been lost, they come across pirates and prostitutes, corrupt Kings and licentious Governors, victims of incest and priestesses of the moon, evil stepmothers and amorous lovers &#8211; all coming together to create an adventurous and fantastic tale of transformation and redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Guest artist Eleanor Holdridge directs with Christopher Compton &#8217;09 assistant directing. <em>Pericles<\/em> features original music by Christopher Colucci; set and costume design by Laila Swanson; sound design by Louis Jargow &#8217;10; and lighting design by Kim Comer &#8217;09.<\/p>\n<p>The performances are free and open to the public without advance reservations. Each performance will be followed by a reception in LPAC lower lobby with the cast and crew of the production. For further information, contact Liza Clark at lclark1@swarthmore.edu or call (610) 328-8260.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swarthmore College Department of Theater&#8217;s Production Ensemble presents William Shakespeare&#8217;s Pericles, Prince of Tyre on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28 at 8 pm and Sunday, March 29 at 2 pm in the Frear Ensemble Theater, Lang Performing Arts Center (LPAC). A cast of fifteen offer a fresh telling of Shakespeare&#8217;s epic tale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6947,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}