The RSC’s ‘Pericles’

Tamara Harvey, the new co-artistic director of the “other” RSC – the Royal Shakespeare Company – discusses her exquisite production of Pericles, and how it came to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and speaks to our current moment on both side of the Atlantic. Tamara reveals how Shakespeare’s characters navigate different kinds of leadership; how she and her co-artistic director Daniel Evans hope to reach across borders and collaborate with international artists; how the challenges of the play felt like a gift; her genius solution to the narrator; how Pericles weaves a unique spell; and the vital importance of giving audiences badly-needed hope and joy. (Length 18:23) (PICTURED: Zach Wyatt as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Pericles at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Photo by Johan Persson. Photo of RSC co-artistic director Tamara Harvey by Seamus Ryan.)

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