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By William Shakespeare
PRODUCTION NOTES
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Running Time: 180 minutes (including 15 minute intermission)
Rating: PG
WHAT THE CRITICS SAID
“One of the most resonant of the Great One's last plays and, at Stratford, an intimately
staged font of poignant pleasure.”
–Chicago Tribune
“Incest! Romance! Betrayal! And can you count on anyone to stay dead? It may sound like
‘Game of Thrones,’ but Shakespeare was around long before ‘GoT’ became the go-to fantasy
adventure.”
–Pittsburgh Post Gazette
“Epic theatre”
–Hamilton Spectator
“Highly entertaining … Wentworth and this cast have made it a tale worth telling, and one
well worth seeing.”
–Sun Media
“A remarkably fluent, intelligent production.”
–Hamilton Spectator
“Entertaining and satisfying.”
–The Toronto Star
“Moving and fun from beginning to end … This story is an ‘adventure’ indeed and I
encourage you to check it out.”
–Broadway World
“Brilliant! … elements of fairy tale and myth, magic and mystery. This production
embraces all of these to the deep enjoyment of those in search of the marvellous, the
miraculous and the divine.”
–The Record
CREDIT BLOCK
MELBAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ANTONI CIMOLINO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ANITA GAFFNEY
PRESENT A BARRY AVRICH PRODUCTION OF THE ADVENTURES OF PERICLES BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
PRODUCER SUSAN EDWARDS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JOE INTERISANO EDITED BY GEORGE ROULSTON
DIRECTED FOR THE STAGE BY SCOTT WENTWORTH DIRECTED FOR THE SCREEN BY BARRY AVRICH
PRODUCED BY BARRY AVRICH
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
The presenting sponsor of Stratford Festival HD is Sun Life Financial, Making the Arts
More Accessible™. Generous support is provided by Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, the
Jenkins Family Foundation, the Henry White Kinnear Foundation, Ophelia & Mike
Lazaridis, Sandra & Jim Pitblado, the Slaight Family Foundation, and Robert & Jacqueline
Sperandio.
DISTRIBUTION
U.S. and international distribution is through SpectiCast, the fastest growing event cinema
marketing and distribution company in the world.
Canadian distribution is through Cineplex Entertainment, which specializes in bringing worldclass events and performances to the big screen. Cinema screenings will be followed by a
broadcast window on CBC-TV, Canada’s national public broadcaster. Digital and on-demand
release will follow.
OVERVIEW
The Adventures of Pericles
A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and another snatches it away.
This magical production of Shakespeare’s epic tale is a delight for the eye and ear. Filled with
music and brilliant spectacle, it follows a fairy-tale hero on a miraculous journey to one of
literature’s most poignant reunions. Evan Buliung gives a sweeping performance, portraying the
dashing young prince with verve and swagger, and taking him into his elder years with sorrowful
tenderness. “Moving and fun from beginning to end,” it is a story rarely told, and one you won’t
soon forget.
Story
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, has sailed to Antioch to seek the hand of King Antiochus’s daughter. To
win her, he must solve a riddle posed by the king – but if he answers incorrectly, his life will be
forfeit.
Horrified by what the riddle reveals – that the king is guilty of incest – Pericles flees back to
Tyre, but soon realizes that Antiochus’s wrath will pursue him there. He travels to Tharsus,
where he relieves a famine with supplies from his ship, but is then shipwrecked on the coast of
Pentapolis, where he marries Thaisa, daughter of King Simonides.
Learning that Antiochus has died, Pericles sets off homeward again with his bride. But their
journey is disrupted by a storm at sea, with consequences that will take many years to reach their
conclusion
About the Play
The text published in 1609 as Pericles, Prince of Tyre may have been a pirated version,
reconstructed from memory; perhaps for that reason, it was not included in the First Folio of
1623. In any case, Shakespeare is believed to have co-written it with another playwright, who
contributed at least the first two acts.
A leading candidate for that unknown collaborator is George Wilkins, who in 1608 had
published a prose work, The Painful Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre, that seems to be what
we would now call a “novelization” of the play. This production acknowledges Shakespeare’s
probable debt to Wilkins, himself a writer of extraordinary talent.
Synopsis
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, has sailed to Antioch to seek the hand of King Antiochus’s daughter. To
win her, he must solve a riddle posed by the king – but if he answers incorrectly, his life will be
forfeit. Horrified by the answer he discovers but refuses to reveal – that the king is guilty of
incest – Pericles flees back to Tyre. Realizing, however, that Antiochus’s wrath will imperil his
homeland, he takes to the seas once more.
His first port of call is Tharsus, where he relieves a famine with supplies from his ship, but then
he is shipwrecked on the coast of Pentapolis, where he engages in a tournament and is rewarded
with the hand of Thaisa, daughter of King Simonides.
Receiving word that Antiochus has died, Pericles decides to return to Tyre with his bride. Their
ship, however, is caught in a storm, during which Thaisa appears to die in childbirth.
Committed to the sea, her coffin washes ashore at Ephesus, where the physician Cerimon revives
her. Believing her husband dead, she becomes a priestess of Diana, goddess of chastity.
Meanwhile, Pericles, fearing that his new-born daughter, Marina, will not survive the rest of the
journey home, leaves her in the care of Cleon, governor of Tharsus, and his wife, Dionyza.
Years pass, and Dionyza, jealous of Marina, plots to have her murdered. Marina escapes but is
sold by pirates to a brothel in Mytilene. Thinking her dead, Pericles aimlessly wanders the seas
until he chances to anchor at Mytilene, where the ill fortune that has dogged him at last begins to
change, leading to a joyous reunion.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
The Return to Wholeness
By Scott Wentworth
Like Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s Pericles is a thrilling adventure story: a tale of heroic
perseverance through incredible adversity. But again like the Odyssey, or like the Arthurian quest
legends, it also offers us a mythological and psychological story beneath the surface of its
episodic, action-driven narrative. With its themes of restoration, redemption and transcendence,
this first of Shakespeare’s “late romances” speaks to our deep humanity as powerfully as his
tragedies and mature comedies. Pericles’s journey is not only a literal one; it is also a journey of
self-discovery. On a metaphysical level, it’s about the search for the soul.
Everywhere Pericles goes, he encounters what psychiatrists and psychologists call a primal
scene, an event both realistic and mythic. Many episodes in the play mirror each other: the quest
for a wife, for instance, or encounters with (and between) fathers and daughters. We’ve explored
those resonances in our casting of this production, in which several of our actors play multiple
characters who might be seen as different manifestations of the same archetype – most notably in
the case of the women in Pericles’s life but in other roles too. Fishermen might, in different
circumstances, have been pirates.
This is also a socio-political play, and a play about the education of a prince. The places Pericles
visits are examples of various types of government, from the tyrannical regime of Antioch to the
philanthropic one of Ephesus, where the lord Cerimon seems to be working in almost magical
accord with the universe and the feminine principles of healing. By presenting us with a series of
alternative ways of organizing a society, the play invites us to ask: what is good government?
What does it mean to rule well?
Shakespeare is clearly criticizing the patriarchal world he lived in – a world with uncomfortable
parallels to our own in its treatment of women. In the context of an exotic fairy-tale adventure,
it’s possible to romanticize and gloss over such elements as brothels and bawds, young women
abducted by pirates. But in fact this play talks very frankly about sexual abuse, human
trafficking, the sex trade – all of the things to which women are especially vulnerable. If we take
seriously what Shakespeare shows us, as we must, we cannot help being reminded of the
schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria, or of our own country’s missing aboriginal
women.
Throughout the play, we see how the men who are running things have got themselves out of
alignment with the universe. They have lost touch with the feminine principle, the Goddess. And
because for men, the soul is traditionally the lost feminine part of themselves – the other, the
twin – that is another way of saying they have lost touch with their souls. The real adventure
Pericles embarks on – as husband, father and prince – is the quest to reunite the male and female
principles. In discovering his lost wife and daughter, he discovers the Goddess; he achieves at
last the re-amalgamation of life, the return of the whole.
NOTES ON CAPTURING THE LIVE PRODUCTION
The Adventures of Pericles was captured live on stage with a full audience at the Stratford
Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre on September 15, 2015, using 10 cameras and 128 tracks of
sound to create a sensational high-definition, surround-sound production. Additional “pick-up”
shots of key performance elements were captured on stage immediately following the
performance.
The film version is faithful to the stage version of the production, but adds the intimacy of film
with its array of camera angles to bring the audience even closer than the intimate Festival
Theatre allows.
Involving the audience was a priority in the filmmaking process as the interplay between actor
and audience is key to any live performance. This was considered to be of such great importance
that an audience remained for the pick-up shots that followed the full performance.
ABOUT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL
The Stratford Festival has been setting the standard for classical theatre in North America for
more than 60 years. With the works of Shakespeare at its core, this acclaimed repertory theatre
presents a seven-month season of a dozen or more plays in four venues, along with a Forum of
events to enrich the play-going experience. Since its revolutionary first season in 1953, it has
welcomed more than 26 million theatregoers from around the world, people who flock to this
small Canadian town for one reason: an unparalleled quality of performance. In 2015, under the
leadership of Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and Executive Director Anita Gaffney, the
Stratford Festival embarked upon a 10-year initiative to capture the entire Shakespeare canon in
spectacular HD, bringing the work of this renowned company to audiences around the world.
“Stratford, where fans of classic drama come in large numbers to worship at its leading,
four-stage, North American shrine.” Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“If you have been longing to encounter greatness in the theatre, it’s waiting for you at the
Stratford Festival.” Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star
“I can’t think of another theatre company in the world currently offering such variety
stylistically – and all of it at the highest standard, too. … The company is feeling like an
international mecca for Shakespeare.” J. Kelly Nestruck, The Globe and Mail
“The depth of casting allows for revelatory performances even in minor roles.”
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“The Stratford Festival is like nirvana for theater fans.” Amy Alipio, National Geographic
Traveler
ABOUT STRATFORD FESTIVAL HD
“The Stratford Festival HD series is off on the right foot. Great actors in great productions
of great plays. This is a reminder of why we preserve the theatre on film.” – Toronto Star
In March 2014, the Stratford Festival’s Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and Executive
Director Anita Gaffney announced an exciting and ambitious film and digital media project,
committing to produce films of three productions each season with the ultimate goal of filming
all of Shakespeare’s plays over the next decade.
“We’re forging new territory here in Canada by filming a series of productions and expanding
our digital footprint,” says Ms Gaffney. “In addition to distributing the films through cinemas,
TV and online, we are also using components from the films to inspire a suite of digital products
including applications, games and audio books. We hope that this expanded digital presence will
ultimately entice even more people to visit Stratford and take in the full Festival experience.”
This massive initiative began in February 2015 with the release of King Lear, a production that
“unquestionably catapults Colm Feore into the ranks of the world’s greatest living actors”
(Toronto Star). The Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed productions of King John and
Antony and Cleopatra rounded out the first instalment of the Stratford Festival HD series, which
will ultimately bring the complete works of William Shakespeare to audiences around the world.
“With the first three productions, we launched a project dear to my heart,” said Mr. Cimolino:
“to create a Canadian collection of the entire Shakespeare canon, which allows us to preserve the
performances of our greatest actors and share them with an audience far beyond our borders.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for the Festival to conquer not only geography but also time.
Over the years, Canada’s greatest theatre artists have done some of their finest work on our
stages, only to have that work vanish into thin air. It is shocking to me that William Hutt’s final
Prospero, for instance, lives on only as a distant, static archival recording that can barely even
hint at the magnificent power of that performance.”
Stratford Festival HD will extend the Festival’s reach and heighten its profile around the world.
In 2015 alone, the Stratford Festival’s HD films reached a worldwide audience of 194,000,
extending the Festival’s reach by 42% over its annual live theatre audience. Stratford Festival
HD will also serve as a valuable educational resource, allowing students to see Canadian
productions of all of Shakespeare’s works, supplemented by online study guides that the Festival
will create for each production.
“Students need to see that Shakespeare doesn’t live in the daunting pages of a great thick book,”
says Mr. Cimolino, “but in the very same media they use to navigate and explore the world
around them.”
ABOUT THE CAST
Evan Buliung
10th season at Stratford: Pericles in The Adventures of Pericles and Jigger
Craigin in Carousel.
Previous roles at Stratford: Member of inaugural Conservatory. Edgar (King
Lear), Titania/Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Count Bellair (The Beaux’
Stratagem), Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath), Roger (The Little Years), Lucius
(Titus Andronicus), Petruchio, Mercutio, The Swanne, Elizabeth Rex.
Elsewhere: Black Stache (Peter and the Starcatcher) (WCT); Dumptsy (Idiot’s
Delight), Jamie (Long Day’s Journey…) (Soulpepper); William Burke (Bloodless)
(Theatre 20); Yvan (Art) (Canadian Stage); Macduff (Macbeth) (Chicago
Shakespeare); Betty/Edward (Cloud 9), Khashoggi (We Will Rock You), Aragorn
(Dora nomination – The Lord of the Rings) (Mirvish). Shaw Festival: Dick
Dudgeon (The Devil’s Disciple), Stanhope (Journey’s End), Lomax (Major
Barbara), Jack Worthing (…Earnest), Octavius (Man and Superman).
Film/TV: Bitten, Brainwashed, The Listener, Nikita, Copper, Ubisoft.
Awards: Jean A. Chalmers, Tony Van Bridge, Tyrone Guthrie awards.
Sean Arbuckle
13th season at Stratford: Cleon in The Adventures of Pericles, Oskar Rose in The
Physicists and appears in The Alchemist.
Previous Stratford: King John, The Pirates of Penzance, 42nd Street, Mother
Courage, Titus Andronicus, Three Sisters, The Merchant of Venice, Cabaret, The
Trojan Women, Macbeth, The Tempest, As You Like It, Agamemnon, Timon of
Athens, Electra, The Swanne: Princess Charlotte, London Assurance, Twelfth
Night, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elsewhere: Othello (Segal Centre); The Winter’s Tale (McCarter/Shakespeare
Theatre); Phèdre (ACT); Woman in Mind (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Humble
Boy, James Joyce’s The Dead (Pioneer Theatre); The Magnificent Ambersons
(Indiana Repertory); The Triumph of Love (Walnut Street); The Spitfire Grill
(George Street, world première); The Turn of the Screw (Grand Theatre).
Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest. National tour: Copenhagen.
Film/TV: 12 Monkeys, Dark Matter, Reign, Defiance, Hope & Faith, Law &
Order.
Awards: Dora Award, London Road (Canadian Stage).
Training: Juilliard.
Deborah Hay
Sixth season at Stratford: Thaisa, Marina, Antiochus’s Daughter in The
Adventures of Pericles and Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew.
Previous Stratford: Othello, The Three Musketeers, Much Ado About Nothing,
Henry V, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, The
Diary of Anne Frank, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry VI.
Elsewhere: Most recently: Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Dorothea in Lovely Sunday
for Creve Coeur (Shaw Festival); London Road (Canadian Stage). Other credits
include My Fair Lady, Born Yesterday, Still Life, Heartbreak House, The Women,
Wonderful Town, After the Dance, The Philanderer (Shaw Festival); The School
for Lies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Caroline, or Change (Acting Up Stage);
Soulpepper; Tarragon; MTC; Mirvish; The Grand Theatre; Theatre Passe Muraille;
Festival of Classics.
Film/TV: Saving Hope, Remedy, The Anniversary (feature film).
Training: BFA, York University; Birmingham Conservatory ’99.
Awards: Dora Award (ensemble, London Road); John Hirsch Award, Stratford
Festival.
Claire Lautier
Sixth season at Stratford: Monika Stettler in The Physicists, Dionyza in The
Adventures of Pericles and appears in The Alchemist.
Stratford (selected): Ebba Sparre (Christina, The Girl King), Margaret (Much
Ado…), Tamora (Titus Andronicus), Silvia (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Aricie
(Phèdre, Stratford/ACT).
N.Y.C.: Isabella (Edward the Second), Duchess (The Revenger’s Tragedy) (Red
Bull); The Dining Room (Keen Company); Hedda Gabler (Broadway); Chaucer in
Rome (Lincoln Center).
Elsewhere: Lady Anne (Richard III), Roxane (Cyrano) (Shakespeare Theatre);
Princess of France (Love’s Labour’s Lost) (RSC/Shakespeare Theatre); many
others across the U.S.
Film: Margarita, My Soul to Take, Ghost Town, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Elf,
House of D, By Courier (Academy Award nomination, 2001).
TV: King, 3lbs, Grey’s Anatomy, Numb3rs, Law and Order, All My Children,
Guiding Light.
Training: Honour graduate, Duke University and Juilliard.
Awards: Drama Desk Award, William Shakespeare Award (Shakespeare Theatre
Company), Michel and Suria St. Denis Award, John Houseman Award.
Brigit Wilson
10th season at Stratford: Bawd in The Adventures of Pericles, Dol Common in
The Alchemist and understudy in The Physicists.
Previous Stratford: The Swanne, All’s Well, Quiet in the Land, Hunchback,
Pericles, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Triumph of Love, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Orpheus Descending (Stratford, MTC, Mirvish), The Merchant of Venice, The
Comedy of Errors, An Ideal Husband, Three Sisters, Bartholomew Fair, Peter
Pan, The Grapes of Wrath, King John, Christina, Mother Courage.
Elsewhere: Narcisse Mondoux (Grand Theatre); Come Back to the Five and
Dime… (Grand Theatre and Five & Dime Productions – Dora nomination); Enron
(Theatre Calgary); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Glorious, Man of La Mancha
(TBTB); The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, Another Season’s Harvest (Blyth Festival);
The Odd Couple (Segal Centre).
TV: Harriet Sims on The Campbells (four seasons), The Hitchhiker, Street Legal,
Parole Board, Verdict, various commercials.
Film: Beyond Innocence, Anne of Avonlea, The Marriage Bed, Echoes in the
Darkness, Lustre.
Antoine Yared
Third season at Stratford: Guhl in The Physicists, Lysimachus in The Adventures
of Pericles and Dapper in The Alchemist.
Previous Stratford: Lewis, the Dauphin (King John), Swiss Cheese (Mother
Courage and Her Children), Mardian (Antony and Cleopatra), Prince of Aragon
(The Merchant of Venice), Planchet (The Three Musketeers), Paris (Romeo and
Juliet).
Elsewhere: Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet), Touchstone (As You Like It) and Stefano
(The Tempest) (Repercussion Theatre); Fox (Pinocchio), Goat and Soldier (Alice
Through the Looking-Glass) (Geordie Productions); Justin (Jesus Jello) (Sheep in
Fog); Galoshin (Provincial Anecdotes) (Concordia University).
Film/TV: Boucherie Halal (Babek Aliassa), Open (Tom Abray).
Recordings: Kojiro Sasaki, Samurai Warriors 2 (KOEI).
Training: Dawson College, Concordia University, Birmingham Conservatory.
Awards: 2014 Michael Mawson Award, 2013 Peter Donaldson Award, 2010 Elsa
Bolam Award.
DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS
Scott Wentworth
Director of the Stage Production of The Adventures of Pericles
21st season at Stratford: Director of The Adventures of Pericles. Epicure
Mammon in The Alchemist.
Stratford: Favourites include 2014’s Gloucester in King Lear, Tevye in Fiddler
on the Roof, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Iago in Othello and the title role
in Macbeth. He also directed the 2001 productions of Henry IV, parts 1 and 2.
Elsewhere: Director: Romeo and Juliet (Denver Theater Center); Love’s Labour’s
Lost and Henry IV (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Directed and starred as Benedick in
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey).
Et cetera: Mr. Wentworth is a Tony-nominated actor, a director and playwright
whose work has been celebrated on Broadway, in London’s West End, on
television, in films and in theatres across the U.S. and Canada.
Antoni Cimolino
Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Antoni Cimolino graduated in 1984 from the University of Windsor’s School
of Dramatic Art. He began his Stratford career in 1988 as an actor, playing such roles as Flute in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (1989), Claudio in Measure for Measure (1992), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet
(1992) and Laertes in Hamlet (1994).
He began to direct for Stratford in the mid-1990s, winning acclaim for such productions as The Night of
the Iguana, with Seana McKenna (1998); Twelfth Night, with William Hutt (2001); Love’s Labour’s Lost,
with Brian Bedford (2003); King John, with Stephen Ouimette (2004); As You Like It, featuring original
music by Barenaked Ladies (2005); Coriolanus, with Colm Feore and Martha Henry (2006);
Bartholomew Fair, with Tom McCamus (2009); The Grapes of Wrath, with Janet Wright (2011); and
Cymbeline, with Geraint Wyn Davies (2012).
In 2013, his first season as Artistic Director, Mr. Cimolino introduced the Stratford Festival Forum, a
series of about 150 insightful events designed to enhance the play-going experience by illuminating the
themes of the plays and illustrating their relevance in today’s world. That same season he directed
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, with Tom McCamus and Scott Wentworth, and Friedrich
Schiller’s Mary Stuart, with Lucy Peacock and Seana McKenna, a production that captured the public’s
imagination and was extended an unprecedented four times. In 2014, he directed two productions starring
Colm Feore, The Beaux’ Stratagem and King Lear, which launched the Stratford Festival HD initiative,
screening at hundreds of screens across Canada, the U.S. and internationally. In 2015, he directed Hamlet,
which is part of the 2016 Stratford HD season, and The Alchemist. His 2016 productions are Macbeth and
The Hypochondriac.
Among many other accomplishments in his previous roles as the Festival’s General Manager, General
Director and Executive Director, Mr. Cimolino oversaw the successful launch of a stability fund and a
$50-million endowment foundation, and also significantly improved the Festival’s infrastructure by
leading the design, consultation and funding process for four major construction projects between 2002
and 2008, including the extensive renovation of the Avon Theatre and the creation of the Studio Theatre.
A champion of the arts and culture, Mr. Cimolino also serves as the National Chair of Culture Days, a
nationwide celebration of arts and culture in Canada. He has initiated collaborations with several
prestigious theatre companies, including Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ottawa’s National Arts
Centre, New York’s Lincoln Center and City Center, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Examples
include the Festival’s 2006 production of Molière’s Don Juan, a co-production with Théâtre du Nouveau
Monde that was presented in both French and English during its Stratford season and later transferred to
Montreal, and 2004’s King Lear, which later transferred to New York, where it garnered two Tony
nominations.
Mr. Cimolino is passionate about enriching the lives of others through the education and practice of the
arts. His dedication to this cause led him to spearhead the Festival’s involvement in a joint project with
CUSO, Canada’s international volunteer co-operation agency, to establish a performing arts and
educational centre in the city of Suchitoto, El Salvador.
Now in his 29th season at the Festival, Mr. Cimolino is a respected artist and an influential leader in the
global theatrical community.
Anita Gaffney
Executive Director
Anita Gaffney is Executive Director of the Stratford Festival, working alongside the Artistic
Director in setting the Festival’s strategic and operational direction. Ms Gaffney joined the
Festival in 1991 and over the past 21 years has held a variety of positions, including Director of
Marketing during the theatre’s years of peak attendance. She designed the Festival’s customer
relationship marketing system, which remains in use today and has been emulated by arts
organizations around the world.
Ms Gaffney is highly regarded for her skills in government relations, finance, change
management and strategic planning, honed during her years as the Festival’s Administrative
Director. Her efforts to expand the reach of the Festival into the digital world include
spearheading the Stratford Festival HD project as well as supporting the production of previous
films, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Tempest and Twelfth Night and the launch of several mobile
applications.
She has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University and has
continued her executive education through Harvard Business School.
Barry Avrich
Producer/Director
Barry Avrich is a veteran director and producer of many critically acclaimed documentary films,
television specials and filmed theatrical adaptations. Avrich’s high-profile films have included
The Last Mogul (HB0), Showstopper (TMN), Filthy Gorgeous (EPIX), Quality Balls (Showtime)
and The Tempest (eone). In 2015, the Avrich productions of King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra,
King John and a television special for HBO called Women Who Act will be released. Avrich has
served as a director for high-profile arts organizations such as TIFF, Hot Docs, Stratford Festival
and The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. In 2007, Avrich built The Hollywood
Theatre, the world's first movie theatre in a hospital for sick children. In 2015, Avrich will
publish his memoir Moguls, Monsters and Madmen.
Michael A. Levine
Executive Producer
Michael A. Levine, a former partner of Goodmans LLP, is Chairman of Westwood Creative
Artists (Canada’s largest literary agency, representing over 400 authors), Chairman of
Bravo!FACT, a Director of the National Screen Institute and Executive Producer of various
fiction and non-fiction films and television properties, many of which tell Canadian stories,
including: The Book of Negroes, The Terry Fox Story, Republic of Doyle, Sir John A Macdonald,
The Land That Devours Ships, The Struggle for Democracy, The Danger Tree, The Heritage
Minutes for The CRB Foundation and Historica, A Soldier’s Peace with Major-General Lewis
MacKenzie, Peter C. Newman’s Canadian Revolution, Canadians: Biographies of a Nation, Sir
Wilfred Laurier, Titans, Mordecai Richler: A Celebration, Mordecai Richler’s St. Urbain’s
Horseman, and various Stratford Festival productions.
TAIL CREDITS
The Adventures of Pericles
By William Shakespeare
A Stratford Festival Production
Directed for the stage by Scott Wentworth
Directed for film by Barry Avrich
Produced by Barry Avrich
Stratford Festival Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino
Stratford Festival Executive Director Anita Gaffney
Executive Producer Michael A. Levine
Main Titles produced by Clinton Young for Extreme Reach
STARRING
Diana ......................................................................................Marion Adler
Maiden Priests .......................................................................Carla Bennett, Jacqueline Burtney,
Jessica B. Hill, Robin Hutton, Jane
Spidell
Pericles ...................................................................................Evan Buliung
At Antioch
Antiochus ...............................................................................Wayne Best
His Daughter ..........................................................................Deborah Hay
Thaliard ..................................................................................E.B. Smith
Messenger..............................................................................David Collins
Attendants .............................................................................Victor Ertmanis, Randy Hughson
At Tyre
Helicanus ................................................................................Stephen Russell
Escanes ...................................................................................Victor Ertmanis
Lords .......................................................................................Jamie Mac, Rylan Wilkie, Antoine
Yared
At Tarsus
Cleon ......................................................................................Sean Arbuckle
Dionyza...................................................................................Claire Lautier
Philoten ..................................................................................Jacqueline Burtney
Leonine...................................................................................E.B. Smith
Marina ....................................................................................Deborah Hay
Citizens ...................................................................................Jacqueline Burtney, Keith Dinicol,
Robin Hutton, Jane Spidell, Brigit
Wilson
Pirates ....................................................................................Victor Ertmanis, Jamie Mac, Rylan
Wilkie
At Pentapolis
Simonides ...............................................................................Wayne Best
Thaisa .....................................................................................Deborah Hay
First Fisherman.......................................................................Victor Ertmanis
Second Fisherman ..................................................................Rylan Wilkie
Third Fisherman .....................................................................Jamie Mac
Knights....................................................................................Alex Black, Ryan Gifford, Sean
Alexander Hauk, Jonathan Winsby
Gentlemen .............................................................................Sean Arbuckle, Keith Dinicol, Randy
Hughson
Footmen .................................................................................Ethan Lafleur, Antoine Yared
Lychorida ................................................................................Marion Adler
On Board Ship
Master ....................................................................................Victor Ertmanis
Sailors .....................................................................................Alex Black, Ryan Gifford, Sean
Alexander Hauk, Jonathan Winsby
At Ephesus
Cerimon ..................................................................................David Collins
Philemon ................................................................................Jane Spidell
Victims of the Tempest ..........................................................Alex Black, Jacqueline Burtney, Ryan
Gifford, Sean Alexander Hauk, Robin
Hutton, Jamie Mac, E.B. Smith, Rylan
Wilkie, Brigit Wilson
Gentlemen .............................................................................Keith Dinicol, Randy Hughson
At Mytilene
Lysimachus .............................................................................Antoine Yared
Pander ....................................................................................Keith Dinicol
Bawd ......................................................................................Brigit Wilson
Bolt .........................................................................................Randy Hughson
Gentlemen .............................................................................Wayne Best, E.B. Smith
Prostitutes ..............................................................................Jacqueline Burtney, Robin Hutton
Stratford Festival Artistic Credits
Designer .................................................................................Patrick Clark
Lighting Designer ...................................................................Kevin Fraser
Composer ...............................................................................Paul Shilton
Sound Designer ......................................................................Verne Good
Fight Director .........................................................................John Stead
Assistant Director ...................................................................Rona Waddington
Assistant Designer ...................................................................Michelle Bohn
Assistant Lighting Designer ....................................................Jareth Li
Associate Fight Director .........................................................Geoff Scovell
Choreographer…………………………………………………………………...Carla Bennett
Fight Captain ..........................................................................Wayne Best
Vocal Monitor……………………………………………………………………..Marion Adler
Wigs and Makeup for HD……………………………………………………Gerald Altenburg
Stage Manager .......................................................................Michael Hart
Assistant Stage Managers ......................................................Meghan Callan, Crystal Skinner
Apprentice Stage Manager ....................................................Liz King
Production Assistant ..............................................................Gregory McLaughlin
Production Stage Managers...................................................Michael Hart, Janine Ralph
Technical Director ..................................................................Sean Hirtle
Associate Technical Director……………………………………………….David Campbell
Original Music Recorded by ...................................................Paul Shilton
Lyrics for “The Pearl” by.........................................................Marion Adler
Director of Music ...................................................................Franklin Brasz
Music Administrator ..............................................................Marilyn Dallman
Administrative Assistant ........................................................Don Sweete
Stage Carpenter .....................................................................Paul Gorman
Alternate ................................................................................Dan Bingeman
Master Electrician ..................................................................Timothy Hanson
Property Master .....................................................................Alan Hughes
Head of Sound ........................................................................Jim Stewart
Crew .......................................................................................Simon Aldridge, David Bedford, Ted
Derry, Rory Feore, Gary Geiger,
Anthony Gentile, Trevor Gould,
Keith Handegord, Alexander Hoch,
Scott King, William Malmo, Stephen
Morgan, Kathleen Orlando, Sean
Poole, John Roth, Mark Smith, Brad
Stephenson, Joe Tracey, Tyson
Wentworth, Karl Wylie
Wardrobe Mistress ................................................................Mary-Lou Mason
Wardrobe Attendants ............................................................Inez Kahn, Jane Mallory, Brigitte
Nazar, Luci Pottle
Swing ......................................................................................Kim Jeffries
Wigs and Makeup Show Head ...............................................Julie Scott
Wigs and Makeup Crew .........................................................Tracy Frayne, Angela Moncur
Editor
George Roulston
Producer
Susan Edwards
Assistant to the Producer
Kadie Balfour
Director of Photography
Joseph Interisano
Technical Producer
Neil Staite
Assistant Director
Kim Murton
Production Manager
Tony Phibbs
LiveWire
Doug McClement
Gary Tompkins
Lisa Meitin
Makeup
Sue Upton
Audio
Kent Ford
Cinedeck Operator
Andy Ford
Video
Charlie Goldman
Cameras
John Fox
Andrew Lotteridge
Dan Mackenzie
Andy Rosso
Brian Tyson
Utility
Kristen MacLaren
Marcus Groebner
Drivers
Dave Arthur
Dominique Van Olm
DOME Productions
Dave Schick
Tyler Ullberg
Will Morrison
Post-Production Supervisor
Mike Reid
Video Post-Production Facility
Creative Post Inc.
Executive Vice President, Creative Post Inc.
Howard Gold
On-Line Editor and Colourist
Jozef Karoly
Audio Facility
Spence-Thomas Audio Post
Dialogue and Sound Editor
Gary Vaughan
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Richard Spence-Thomas
Opening Titles Creative Supervisor
Andre Fournier
Design/Animation
Mike Blonde
Stratford Festival HD is presented by: SunLife, Making the Arts More Accessible™
Stratford Festival HD is generously supported by: Laura Dinner and Richard Rooney, The Jenkins
Family Foundation, The Henry White Kinnear Foundation, Ophelia and Mike Lazaridis, Jim and
Sandra Pitblado, The Slaight Family Foundation, Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio.
Stratford Festival Production Team
Director of Production ...........................................................Simon Marsden
Technical Director – Scenic Construction ..............................Andrew Mestern
Wardrobe Manager ...............................................................Tanya Apostolidis
Production Administrator ......................................................Cheryl Bender
Design Coordinator ................................................................Mary-Jo Carter Dodd
Scene Shop Manager .............................................................Robbin Cheesman
Technical Management Assistant ..........................................Michael Besworth
Administrative Assistant ........................................................Cindy Jordan
Electronics Technologist ........................................................Chris Wheeler
Transportation .......................................................................Charlie Fox, Dirk Newbery, James
Thistle
Head of Properties .................................................................Dona Hrabluk
Assisted by .............................................................................Eric Ball, Ken Dubblestyne, Michelle
Jamieson, Kathryn Kerr, Shirley Lee,
Jennifer Macdonald, Brian McLeod,
Dylan Mundy, Heather Ruthig, Lisa
Summers
Properties Apprentice ............................................................Matt Leckie
Properties Buyer ....................................................................Tracy Fulton
Assistant Properties Buyer .....................................................Jaclyn Zaltz
Head Scenic Artist ..................................................................Christopher Klein
Assistant Head Scenic Artist...................................................Daniel McManus
Assisted by .............................................................................Kevin Kemp, Amparo Villalobos,
Michael Wharran, Blair Yeomans
Head Carpenter ......................................................................Ryan Flanagan
Head of Automation ..............................................................Ian Phillips
Lead Hand ..............................................................................Stephen Morgan
Assisted by .............................................................................Simon Aldridge, David Bedford,
Mark Card, Gary Geiger, Nick Glenn,
Douglas Ledingham, William Malmo,
Wayne Nero, John Roth, Joseph
Saunders, Mark Smith, Geoff Taylor,
Cliff Tipping, Joe Tracey
Head of Wardrobe .................................................................Bradley Dalcourt
Seasonal Wardrobe Supervisor..............................................Linda Sparks
Cutters ....................................................................................Johanna Billings, Terri Dans, Evan
Stillwater
First Hands .............................................................................Mary-Lou Mason, Krista Nauman
Sewers ....................................................................................Susy Arnold, Denise Bott, Caroline
Broadley, Marlee Bygate, Allison
Erb, Kiyomi Hidaka, Shona
Humphrey, Grace Kessel, Anna Lach,
Norma LaChance, Paulette Laporte,
Karen Merriam, Catherine Weber,
Silvia Widmer
Bijoux/Decoration ..................................................................Tami MacDonald
Assisted by .............................................................................Rebecca Dillow, Liane Guttadauria,
Kathi Posliff
Boots and Shoes .....................................................................Connie Puetz
Assisted by .............................................................................Karen Beames, Sarah Cook, Michael
Karn, Chantelle Laliberte
Costume Painting ...................................................................Lisa Hughes
Dyeing ....................................................................................Sylvia Minarcin
Assisted by .............................................................................Linda Pinhay
Millinery .................................................................................Helen Flower
Assisted by .............................................................................Isabel Bloor, Katarzyna Maxine,
Monica Viani
Wardrobe Buyer.....................................................................Michelle Barnier
Assistant Wardrobe Buyer .....................................................Caitlin Luxford
Wardrobe Apprentice ............................................................Rebecca Forsyth
Warehouse Supervisor ...........................................................Madonna Decker
Warehouse Assistants ............................................................Chevy Barlow, Valerie Lariviere
Additional Costumes by .........................................................Kelly Francis Costumes
Head of Wigs and Makeup…………………………………………………Gerald Altenburg
Wigs and Makeup Department..............................................Erica Croft, Jessica Elsbrie, Tracy
Frayne, Lorna Henderson, Dave Kerr,
Angela Moncur, Barb Newbery,
Alana Scheel, Julie Scott, Christine
Vaughan, Stanley Wickens
Wigs and Makeup Apprentice…………………………………………….Anna Burton
This recording was made possible with the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity
Association.
Stratford Festival artists are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and ACTRA – the
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists.
Stratford Festival stage crew, scenic carpenters, drivers, wigs and makeup attendants, facilities
staff and audience development representatives are members of Local 357 of the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE
Local 924. Scenic artists are members of IATSE Local 828.
The musicians, musical directors, conductors and orchestra contractors engaged by the
Stratford Festival are members of the Toronto Musicians’ Association, Local 149 of the
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. Produced with the
cooperation of the Canadian Federation of Musicians.
Special thanks to Arden R. Ryshpan, Alistair Hepburn, Sue Milling, Mimi Wolch, Dan Broome,
Larry Miller, Mary-Lou Mason, Sondra Richter and all of the Stratford Festival’s 2015 season
artists, artisans, crew and staff for making this production possible.
Stratford Festival Directors’ Office
Artistic Director ......................................................................Antoni Cimolino
Executive Director ..................................................................Anita Gaffney
Producer .................................................................................David Auster
Creative Planning Director .....................................................Jason Miller
Casting Director .....................................................................Beth Russell
Director of New Plays ............................................................Bob White
Associate Producer ................................................................Bonnie Green
Company Manager.................................................................Rosie Driscoll
Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director ...........................Joy Wishart
Executive Assistant to the Executive Director .......................Marion Burr
Assistant to the Producer ......................................................Susan Lemenchick
Casting Assistant ....................................................................Jennifer Emery
Directors’ Office Coordinator.................................................Shira Ginsler
Head of Voice & Coaching......................................................Janine Pearson
Director of Advancement.......................................................Rachel Smith-Spencer
Associate Director, Sponsorship………………………………………….Lorraine Patterson
Archives Director....................................................................Liza Giffen
Director of Audience Development .......................................Sarah Hamza
Literary and Editorial Director ...............................................David Prosser
Director of Education .............................................................Andrea Gammon
Director of Finance, Facilities & Information Technology……Darryl Huras
Comptroller………………………………………………………………………..Carla Fowler
Director of Human Resources ................................................Shelley Stevenson
Publicity Director ...................................................................Ann Swerdfager
HD Coordinator ......................................................................Jennifer McCaw
Legal Counsel
Dentons LLP
Duncan Morrin LLP
Goodmans LLP
Accounting
Kay and Warburton
Production Accountant
Raluca Alexe
Banking
National Bank – Frank Manzo
Insurance
The CG&B Group
Distributed in Canada by Cineplex Entertainment
Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Produced with the assistance of
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
And
Ontario Media Development Corporation - Film and Television Tax Credits
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