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Willard White

Paapa Essiedu

Sarah Malin

Colin Hurley

Barrie Rutter

Tamzin Griffin

Adjoa Andoh

Laura Rees

Martin Turner

Mark Straker

Tim Chipping

Martin Bassindale

Oscar Batterham

Neil Bartlett

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Drama on 3: Pericles

Pericles

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Pericles

Shakespeare's rarely produced Pericles, in a disturbing new version starring Willard White

Disturbing new version of Shakespseare's rarely produced drama Pericles, where murder, intrigue, shipwrecks and prostitution tear a king's family apart. With Willard White as Gower

A gripping new production of one of Shakespeare's later and least performed plays, Pericles, in which murder, incest, intrigue, shipwrecks and prostitution tear King Pericles' family apart. 

Adapted for radio and directed by acclaimed British theatre writer/director Neil Bartlett with a multicultural cast including opera legend Sir Willard White as Gower, the RSC's rising star Paapa Essiedu as Pericles and renowned British film actress Adjoa Andoh as Dionyza. A Greek chorus trio provides an innovative way to deliver pirates, fishermen, knights and villains galore. 

Pericles is a problem play on stage given the long script, wordy passages, multiple shipwrecks and sea storms, and large number of locations. With a pacey, music-rich new adaptation for radio by Neil Bartlett and the rich, beguiling tones of Willard White as Gower, Pericles becomes a lively, shocking and moving roller-coaster journey, perfect for radio drama, and reclaims Pericles as one of Shakespeare's plays definitely worthy of more frequent productions.

CAST 
Gower ..... Willard White 
Pericles .....Paapa Essiedu 
Thaisa ..... Sarah Malin 
Helicanus/Pandar ..... Colin Hurley 
Cleon/Boult ..... Barrie Rutter 
Cerimon/Bawd ..... Tamzin Griffin 
Dionyza/Lychorida ..... Adjoa Andoh 
Marina ..... Laura Rees 
Leonine/Simonides ..... Martin Turner 
Antiochus/Lysimachus ..... Mark Straker 
Trio 1 ..... Tim Chipping 
Trio 2 ..... Martin Bassindale 
Trio 3 ..... Oscar Batterha

Marina's song composed by Simon Deacon
Pianist, Josef Janik

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