Paul Simei-Barton, The New Zealand Herald

March 3, 2014

Freewheeling Shakespearean rarity presented in quirky mix of time and place.

This year’s Summer Shakespeare eschews the well-worn path of the familiar plays and plunges us into the exotic world of a seldom produced late work that is greatly admired by some Shakespearean scholars.

Pericles presents an outlandish series of adventures with a young prince fleeing assassins and winning his princess through combat. But as the wheel of fortune turns, he loses his wife at sea and leaves his daughter in the care of an untrustworthy guardian. […continued]

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