NEW YORK—There’s triumph and tragedy aplenty in William Shakespeare’s “Pericles.” Spanning two generations and multiple locations, the story features shipwrecks, court intrigue, incest, prostitution, messages from the gods, honest fishermen, and pirates. These myriad and disparate elements are handsomely presented by Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
In Antioch, on a quest to woo the king’s daughter (Sam Morales), Pericles (Christian Camargo), Prince of Tyre, is forced to flee for his life after learning a dark secret about the princess and her father (Earl Baker Jr.). The king sends an assassin after Pericles to ensure the secret will never be told.
Christian Camargo as Pericles in a wonderful production of Shakespeare's rarely produced play "Pericles." Gerry Goodstein
