Pericles Redux

ADAPTED, DIRECTED, AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY JOHN FARMANESH-BOCCA

Los Angeles Premiere — Kirk Douglas Theatre, 2009
World Premiere — Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2008
Sunset Center, 2008
Norris Theater, 2008
Workshop — Shakespeare Santa Monica, 2008

“Exhilarating and propulsive, Pericles Redux is Shakespeare with the excitement of a Lakers game” — LA Times

“Five Stars” — The Scotsman

“Ingeniously and passionately adapted” — Hollywood Reporter

Pushing the boundaries between theatre and dance, Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble and its Artistic Director John Farmanesh-Bocca present an "electrifying" reconstruction of Shakespeare's romantic odyssey, which was declared a hit by the British press at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe. In her laudatory review of Pericles Redux, Kelly Apter of The Scotsman (U.K.) stated, "This tragicomic play is ripe with potential - all of which director John Farmanesh-Bocca exploits to the full. What captures us most is the extremity of emotion. As the story reaches its climax, don't be surprised to find yourself laughing and crying at the same time."

Incorporating what Farmanesh-Bocca affirms as a "smashed together" infusion of classical, contemporary and experimental stage techniques, Pericles Redux re-imagines Shakespeare's romantic odyssey, which follows the fate of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, as he escapes deadly assassins and braves many challenges to attain a wife and family which he quickly loses in a deadly storm at sea. Scattered to far-off places the family desperately tries to reunite.