PERICLES IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA

"PERICLES IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA"
directing: Philip Leone – Ganado
Theater KakoSeVikaat, Malta
22.11.2026 | New scene | 18:00

„Perils in the middle of the sea“ (Pericles in the middle of the sea) reimagines Shakespeare's Pericles as a multilingual Mediterranean story of migration, survival and the power of storytelling. When Pericles is forced to leave his home, he embarks on a journey across the sea, tossed from one shore to the other, during which he experiences love, loss and separation from those closest to him. The story, which switches fluidly between the four languages ​​that have shaped the history of Malta and much of the Mediterranean – Maltese, English, Italian and Arabic – performed by an ensemble of four actor-musicians, through dynamic, reduced and physically intense expression. Combined with folk music from Malta and the Mediterranean, sound and language change as characters cross boundaries, they meet unknown people and rediscover each other. Like that, the work turns into a poetic review of the movement of people, cultures and languages ​​across the Mediterranean. "Perikli f'nofs il-mira" asks questions about what we take with us when we leave home, how we survive and what it takes to find our way back.