Yes to you both, but even though Pericles is not a great play, an
inventive director can do things; as here, with student actors, a
Quebecois director turned the play into an epic fantasia, full of SFX,
& utterly thrilling.
Which is why S keeps many people coming back; there's always soething
new possible with great artists (both the writer & the actors/
dirctors, etc).
Doug
On 2-Oct-08, at 6:44 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Mind you, that doesn't mean he can't be done badly. One of the longest
> nights I've spent in a theatre was watching a production of Pericles.
Douglas Barbour
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