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Currently watching Stratford Festival& #39;s "Pericles," which I wasn& #39;t planning to tweet about, but we are five minutes into the production and they have changed the chorus figure from Gower to a group of Diana& #39;s votaresses, so I cannot resist.
Is this choice meant to suggest that Gower has lost his purchase as a deep and relevant cultural reference? I refuse to believe it.
"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
I& #39;d love to see Antiochus& #39;s daughter have a strong perspective. Is she into it, the incest? Does she hope, vainly, to escape it? What& #39;s her story?
Someone has written a brilliant article about Helicanus, Thaliard, and the question of how to be a Good Servant/Steward, right? I want to read it.
There is such a high degree of physical resemblance between the actors playing Antiochus, Pericles, and Cleon that I am sincerely having trouble telling the actors apart. 
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Okay, my mother (who is much better with faces than I am) tells me that Antioch and Cleon were played by the same actor. But I maintain that this actor still looks very much like the one playing Pericles.
I& #39;m actually sort of into the Antioch& #39;s Daughter/Thaisa and Antioch/Simonides doubling. It& #39;s like Groundhog Day for Pericles -- he just cannot get away from these people. An interesting way to think about the episodic element of this play
Just to amuse myself (and make up for Gower& #39;s absence), I am imagining that Pericles -- currently singing about his search for "the pearl" -- is singing about the 14th-c Middle English poem "Pearl"
Wondering why the votaresses got the first Gower speech, but the cast are dividing the others among themselves.
(We watched only the first half of the show last night, so there will be more tweets to come tonight -- what a curious change to the theatre experience, that the viewer can pause it at will!)
Wow. Okay. Was not expecting the Thaisa/Marina doubling -- *definitely* have thoughts about that
The quick and unceremonious death of Marina& #39;s nurse has always seemed like a gap and a shame to me. Female servants certainly deserve better than their early modern theatrical fates...
WOW. Okay. We are gonna talk about the staging of the moment where Dionyza& #39;s man comes after Marina. Not right this minute, but we will. *rubs hands together*
This thread is meant to be mostly intellectual-ish thoughts, but I& #39;d be amiss if I didn& #39;t point out that "Why are you foolish? Can it be undone?" is a whole mood.
There& #39;s something interesting flickering between Marina and the female bawd. The bawd& #39;s line, "will you go the way of women-kind?" feels different after Marina earlier asked the bawd if she was a woman; an honest woman, or none.
I am watching this performance with my family, and my mother is beautifully invested in the unfolding reunion between Pericles and Marina https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Leicht lĂ€chelndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Leicht lĂ€chelndes Gesicht">
I& #39;ve never thought about the parallels between Pericles/Marina and Lear/Cordelia or even Gloucester/Edgar before. But I& #39;m thinking about them now.
Stunned by the fact that the character of Thaisa ages into an older actress, but Pericles is played by the same actor. (With Thaisa doubling as Marina, I was wondering how they were going to stage that reunion.)
