NO MAN’S LAND
Next up in ACT’s Pinterfest is “No Man’s Land,” the 1974-75 “dramedy” that follows a rich, aging, and alcoholic literateur […]
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August 2012
BLACK PANTHERS AND YOUNG LORDS DO NOT GET A HEARING FOR THEIR HISTORIES IN BOLD BUT FRUSTRATING PERFORMANCE COLLABORATION AT OSF
The third performance in my Oregon Shakespeare Festival marathon was Party People at the New Theatre, my favorite of the
As You Like It at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Transformative Delight on the Outdoor Stage
My Ashland adventure started at the outdoor Elizabethan Stage, for an enchanting production of As You Like It. Directed by
Schenkkan’s Triumph and (Very)(Un)Merry Wives, the Highs and Lows of the OSF experience
I saw two new plays at Ashland during my recent trip that represented the most exciting and most disappointing kinds
ANIMAL CRACKERS WILL DRIVE YOU BANANAS, NO BIT TOO CHEAP, NO GAG TOO THIN IN OSF’S BRILLIANT ADAPTATION
ANIMAL CRACKERS WILL DRIVE YOU BANANAS,NO BIT TOO CHEAP, NO GAG TOO THIN IN OSF’S BRILLIANT ADAPTATION The first matinee
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Sex, Trouble and Taxi #274, Pinter Sketches
Verbal Tapdances, British style.
It is not just the British national addition to crossword puzzles which spawns so many superb code-crackers, but also the addiction to speaking elliptically. In the U.K. every conversation becomes an exercise in deciphering coded language. At ACT Theatre Sex, Trouble and Taxi #274 by Harold Pinter illustrates this poignantly.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival; One of America’s great theatre experiences
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival In AshlandOne of America’s Greatest Theatre Experiences You say you love road trips, adventures with friends
THE ILLUSION
Sound Theatre Company’s latest production is Tony Kushner’s “The Illusion.” Adapted from the 17th century French playwright, Pierre Corneille’s “L’Illusion
The Abdication
Sell me an Indulgence
“I’m becoming Catholic” is the idiom in Hamburg (a Northern German Protestant City) for “I’m going crazy”. The Abdication by Ruth Wolff reminded me of this idiom. A play about self-reflection, it is framed in a Vatican examination as to whether Christina, the Protestant former Queen of Sweden, no stranger to craziness herself, should be officially received into the Roman Catholic Church.