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.
Driving Miss Daisy
Two Outsiders in the South, Before, During and after Civil Rights.
Driving Miss Daisy, originally a Pulitzer Prize winning stage-play by Alfred Uhry, recounts the 25-year relationship ( from 1948-1973) between two outsiders in the South, specifically Atlanta. Boolie, the son of Miss Daisy, insists on hiring a chauffeur for his uninsurable accident prone mother, a wealthy Jewish wide. The chauffeur Hoke is an an amiable, astute African American widower with young grandchildren. But the decision to hire Hoke is over Miss Daisy’s metaphorical dead body.
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THE CELTIC CROSS
One of Seattle’s newest theatre companies is a two-man outfit known as Wanderweg Productions. Started by Mathew Jackson and Bryan
99 Layoffs
Please have your resume ready for review
99 Layoffs, by Vincent Delaney, opened at the Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space of ACT Theatre on Thurday night. A highly topical multi-media play, it captures the zeitgeist of the past four years. Through a series of sketches, and videos, the audience watches two characters, Louella, (Aimée Bruneau ) and Orson ( K. Brian Neel) as they navigate layoffs, job interviews, job searches, and worst of all: actually working.