Cheek By Jowl Announce Further Dates for PERICLES, PRINCE DE TYR UK Tour

Artistic Directors of Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod today announce UK tour dates for their production of Shakespeare's Périclès, Prince de Tyr. Performed in French, with English surtitles, the production will open at the Barbican, where the company is an Associate, on 9 April, with previews from the 6 April, running until 21 April. Following the London dates, the productions runs at Oxford Playhouse from 24 - 28 April.

Also announced today is a major new revival of Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle which will be performed by an all-Russian company. The production tours internationally in 2019 - including a first time run for the play in Russia.

PÉRICLÈS, PRINCE DE TYR

By William Shakespeare

Cast: Christophe Grégoire, Camille Cayol, Xavier Boiffier, Cécile Leterme, Valentine Catzéflis, Guillaume Pottier, Martin Nikonoff

Director: Declan Donnellan; Designer: Nick Ormerod

Périclès, Prince de Tyr is one of Shakespeare's strangest and most heart rending plays. Pericles, shipwrecked on the Mediterranean navigates a stormy sea of pirates, magicians, brothels, kidnappers, tournaments, plots against his life... and divine intervention from the Goddess Diana. Incest, treachery, murder, love, joy all explode in this giant theatrical firework ... the embers dim and glow in one of the greatest and most moving scenes Shakespeare ever wrote, Pericles recognition of his long lost daughter Marina.

Declan Donnellan directs Périclès, Prince de Tyr and The Knight of the Burning Pestle. He is joint founder of Cheek by Jowl with Nick Ormerod. As joint Artistic Director of the company, he has directed over 30 productions, including most recently The Winter's Tale, Measure for Measure and Ubu Roi. In 2007 Peter Brook invited him to form a French company of actors. He has received awards in Moscow, Paris, New York and London, including three Laurence Olivier Awards. He has been awarded a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France and the Golden Lion of Venice. Donnellan and Ormerod both received OBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2017.

Produced by Cheek by Jowl in a co-production the Barbican, London; Les Gémeaux/Sceaux/Scène Nationale; Théâtre du Nord, CDN Lille-Tourcoing-Hauts de France

With support from Jeune Theatre National-France

With thanks to the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater

The production is performed in French with UK subtitles

LISTINGS:

Les Gémeaux , Sceaux, Paris, France 7 - 25 March

Maison des arts de Créteil, Créteil, France 28 - 30 March

Barbican 6 - 21 April

Press night: 9 April

Members booking opens 2 November. Public booking opens 10 November

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