The Black Rep opens its 34th season with PERICLES, a Shakespeare play that's seldom performed. It draws from a couple of sources, and is generally thought of to have been only half written by Shakespeare.
It seems tempting for many directors to play around with times and locations for Shakespeare's plays. Andrea Frye's direction moves the locales from places like Tarsus, Pentapolis, Ephesus and Mytilene, to Pre-Colonial Africa, 20th century Haiti, 1950's Havana, the Gullah Islands in the 1960's and 1920's New Orleans.
