Within the atmospheric and evocative setting of a warehouse in Southwark, Shakespeare's story of Pericles was brought up to speed in a unique version - both haunting and invigorating. Working in partnership with the RSC, this epic drama was reinvigorated by a cast gleaned from the RSC and Cardboard Citizens.

The lives of two generations of a family, driven across the seas in a physical and spiritual journey, are linked by the hand of an ineluctable and cruel fate. Against a background of modern day testimony, incredible story follows on story in a world of shipwrecks and pirates, incest and assassination, birth, death and rebirth.

This production of Pericles was preceded by a small-scale, story-telling production of the play, boiled down to one hour, with five actors, which played to refugee groups around the capital - Afghans one night, Iraqis another, Kurds, Latin Americans, Africans, Albanians, Bosnians, as well as general audiences of homeless people and asylum-seekers.

The theatre became a meeting ground, a site of conversation; we told the story of Pericles, and they told us stories back, by turns amazing, shocking, unbelievable, painful, normal.

Read the evaluation of Pericles in the Arts Council's report Taking Part in the Arts (2004).

Cast: Jo Galbraith, Andy Haase, Jasmine Hyde, Adna Sabljic, Dele Adagunodo, Kammy Darweish, Jake Goode, Kevork Malikyan, David Mara, Nick Payne, Dave Rodgers, Christopher Simpson