Peggy Shannon's musical audio adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless tale opens with our hero at the palace of Antioch before King Antiochus, who challenges Pericles to solve the riddle that will win the King's daughter's hand in marriage. They are surrounded by the heads of men who have died trying before him. Pericles solves the riddle, learning the terrible truth about the incestuous relationship between the Princess and the King. Pericles then flees Antioch, fearing the king's' wrath.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Akuyoe as Marina/Others Phyllis Applegate as Lychordia/Pirate/Others Patti Austin as Dionyza David Downing as Simonides/Boult/Sailor/Others JudyAnn Elder as Bawd Bennet Guillory as Antiochus/Lord Cerimon/Others Rif Hutton as Lysimachus/Pirate/Others Bob Devin Jones as Gower/Helicanus/Others Ted Lange as Cleon/Fisherman Eugene Lee as Thaliard/Fisherman/Others Carl Lumbly as Pericles Don Reed as Pandar/Sailor/Leonine/Others Michele Lamar Richards as Thaisa/Diana Don Willis as Fisherman/Philemon/Pirate/Others

Original music composed by Gerald Sternbach; performed by Nasser Nasser on percussion; vocal performances by Mary Bond Davis, Edie Lehmann, and Raymond Patterson.

Directed by Peggy Shannon. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in December of 1991.

© 2010 L.A. Theatre Works (Audiobook): 9781580817806

Release date

Audiobook: 25 July 2010