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Science Fiction Pericles
At Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Pericles boldly goes where no Pericles has gone before. Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips discusses how his space-age setting for Shakespeare's underrated Romance is weirdly more relatable than the maritime travel in the original; how they've changed very little language (apart from some references of ‘sea’ to ‘sky’); how there's nothing new under the sun (from any galaxy); how he and his cast are playing it straight and not campy or spoofy; how companies don't program Pericles unless they have a passion for it, which always shows; how this bucket-list…
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