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Its here to spin a good yarn.
Well, maybe its Shakespeares.
Its early Jacobean Englands hottest club!
Wilkins is big on one-syllable rhymes.)
Steinfeld has also smartly augmented or alternated parts of Gowers choruses with actual song.
Everything is cheerful, wholesome, hail-fellow-well-met.
Nor does the show frequently aim for laughter of the really gutsy, released variety.
Smiling and chuckling is more its speed.
Such heavy-handedness in the plays tenderest moment is also a matter of direction.
This girl is Marina (Emily Young, not quite channeling the characters near-magical aura).
She is the child Pericles hasnt seen since her infancy, the child he thinks hes lost.
cries Pericles) sparkles like a precious gem in a necklace of charming plastic beads.
I am wild in my beholding, says Pericles (weve come a long way from rhymingbadwithglad).
O heavens bless my girl!
But, hark, what music?
His wise old counselor, Helicanus (Paul L. Coffey), says he hears none.
Nor can Lysimachus (Tolson), the governor of Mytilene.
But still, List, my Marina!
Fiasco TheatersPericlesis at Classic Stage Company through March 24.
