Blackbird
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
World Premiere!
Joe Popp (MAXWELL, JY2K) is bringing his power-punk music and oddball sense of humor back to Tampa and teaming up with perennial Jobsite contributors Neil Gobioff & Shawn Paonessa (The Curse of Milhaven, The March of the Kitefliers) in this 11th year of celebrating bringing new work to the stage.
Jobsite has produced an original or unpublished play in every year of their history. The first, Y2K, featured a 15-minute rock opera by Popp and an awarded one-act by Gobioff & Paonessa. Jobsite has commissioned both Popp and the team of Gobioff & Paonessa for various projects over the years, but Pericles marks the first collaboration with these artists. Popp is also no stranger to the Bard. In 1997, he composed a punk rock adaption of Macbeth for Shakespeare in the Park, which still stands as the best-attended event in the series. Pericles is shifted in time and space to the modern day era. Perry, ‘Prince of Tires’, gets caught up in a web of intrigue, incest and the mafia, following his exploits through New Jersey, New York and Boston.