Alice in WonderlandEva Le Gallienne & Florida FriebusAdapted from Lewis CarrollOregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Cast of Alice in WonderlandDreams are often disjointed and full of strange things we sometimes only slightly recognize while they take us places that range from fascinating to fearful, from silly to sad, from comforting to frightful. In directing Oregon … [Read more...] about “Alice in Wonderland”: Day 7, Show 7, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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“Cambodian Rock Band”: Day 5, Play 6, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Cambodian Rock BandLauren Yee, with Songs by Dengue FeverOregon Shakespeare FestivalJoe Ngo, Abraham Kim, Brooke Ishibashi, Jane Lui & Moses VillaramaA play about family displacement, trauma, and massive genocide is not a play one would normally expect often to laugh, to tap one’s foot to rock music, or to walk out feeling uplifted and inspired. But when the play is … [Read more...] about “Cambodian Rock Band”: Day 5, Play 6, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“La Comedia of Errors”: Day 5, Play 5, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
La Comedia of ErrorsWilliam ShakespeareBilingual Adaptation by Lydia G. Garcia & Bill Rauch of a Play On!Translation by Christina AndersonOregon Shakespeare FestivalFidel Gomez, Mark Murphey, Tony Sancho & Catherine Castellanos Slapstick comedy reigns supreme while at the same time, strong messages are pronounced in both English and Spanish about our country’s current … [Read more...] about “La Comedia of Errors”: Day 5, Play 5, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“All’s Well That Ends Well”: Day 4, Play 4, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
All’s Well That Ends WellWilliam ShakespeareOregon Shakespeare FestivalRoyer BokusCan anything actually end well in a play where for every good, there is a bad; for every show of trust, there is a betrayal of deceit; for every wise counsel, there is an insult full of biting cynicism. Opposites meet, blend, clash, fight, make love, make war, make peace. The sexes pit … [Read more...] about “All’s Well That Ends Well”: Day 4, Play 4, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Macbeth”: Day 3, Play 3, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
MacbethWilliam ShakespeareOregon Shakespeare FestivalDanforth Comins & Any Kim WaschkeHow much do we actually control our own choices and fates in the decisions we believe we are making independently, or how much do we become the puppets of others’ suggestions they have purposely implanted within us to lead us in directions they desire? In the current Oregon … [Read more...] about “Macbeth”: Day 3, Play 3, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Mother Road”: Day Two, Play Two, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Mother RoadOctavio SolisOregon Shakespeare FestivalMark Murphey & Tony SanchoSeventy-plus years have past since the Joad family of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath joined a parade of desperate migrant farmers, all leaving their starving lives in Dust-Bowl-ravaged and looking for the lush life they saw painted on fruit crates from California. Two Joads – a mother and her … [Read more...] about “Mother Road”: Day Two, Play Two, Theatre Eddys Goes to the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Between Two Knees”: Day One, Play One, Theatre Eddys Goes to 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Between Two KneesThe 1491s (Dallas Goldtooth, Sterlin Harjo, Migizi Pensoneau, Ryan Redcorn & Bobby Wilson)Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Co-Commissioned with New NativeTheatreJustin GauthierMultiple massacres of innocent men, women, and children; forced resettlements of native peoples to the country’s most undesirable locales; reeducation of children to forget their native … [Read more...] about “Between Two Knees”: Day One, Play One, Theatre Eddys Goes to 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“King Henry V”: Day 9, Play 9, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Henry VWilliam ShakespeareOregon Shakespeare FestivalDaniel José Molina as King Henry V“Therefore take heed how you impawn one person,How you awake our sleeping sword of war.We charge you in the name of God, take heed;For never two such kingdoms did contendWithout much fall of blood.”The King who looks squarely, calmly, and bluntly into the eyes of the Archbishop of Canterbury … [Read more...] about “King Henry V”: Day 9, Play 9, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“The Book of Will”
The Book of WillLauren GundersonOregon Shakespeare Festival The Cast of The Book of WillImagine a world without Orlando, Banquo, Lady Macbeth, Rosylind, Caliban, Puck, or dozens of other Shakespearean characters who are our friends, even family. But for the inspired insight, stubborn determination, and colossal efforts of a 1619, London bar owner and his … [Read more...] about “The Book of Will”
“Oklahoma!”: Day 7, Play 7, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oklahoma!Richard Rodgers (Music), Oscar Hammerstein II (Book & Lyrics)Oregon Shakespeare FestivalRoyer Bockus & Tatiana WechslerAfter relishing an overture that is packed with numbers now encased in the Great American Songbook (during which audience humming and outright singing of words can readily be heard), anticipation is high for those first few notes of “There’s a … [Read more...] about “Oklahoma!”: Day 7, Play 7, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Love’s Labor Lost”: Day 5, Play 6, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Love’s Labor LostWilliam ShakespeareOregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Musicians of Love's Labor LostA huge pink pig residing and barely fitting into the upper balcony of the Oregon Shakespeare Theatre – the space normally reserved for heavenly beings or musicians – along with a column of over-sized, silver-starred mylar ballons; a tilting quarter moon the length of a car; and … [Read more...] about “Love’s Labor Lost”: Day 5, Play 6, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Manahatta”: Day 5, Play 5, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
ManahattaMary Kathryn NagleOregon Shakespeare FestivalSteven Flores & Tanis ParenteauTwo American stories, four centuries apart, interlock in their telling, with characters, events, motives, triumphs, and tragedies strikingly similar in Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta. Now in an engrossing, enlightening, and emotional world premiere at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare … [Read more...] about “Manahatta”: Day 5, Play 5, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Othello”: Day 4, Play 4, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
OthelloWilliam ShakespeareOregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Cast of OthelloWhen Director Bill Rauch decided to set the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othelloin our time with military personnel sent to Cyprus wearing camouflage that bear “US Navy” on their uniforms, he ensured the relevance of this tragic tale to headlines we are reading even today. That the … [Read more...] about “Othello”: Day 4, Play 4, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Romeo and Juliet”: Day 3, Play 3, Theatre Eddys at 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Romeo and JulietWilliam ShakespeareOregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Cast of Romeo and JulietAs a robed, hooded, and totally anonymous community surrounds them and solemnly listens, a young man and woman remove all mystery how their story will end. Romeo and Juliet together recount how the long-term, oft-deadly rivalry between their two families will soon result in a tragedy … [Read more...] about “Romeo and Juliet”: Day 3, Play 3, Theatre Eddys at 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Sense and Sensibility”: Day 2, Play 2, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Sense and SensibilityKate HamillOregon Shakespeare FestivalEmily Ota & Nancy RodriguezThe beloved books of Jane Austen have found their way onto the British and American stages over and again in the past twenty or so years. Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks Silicon Valley alone has twice staged Paul Gordon’s Emma,each time to huge acclaim and record audiences, and is featuring … [Read more...] about “Sense and Sensibility”: Day 2, Play 2, Theatre Eddys at the 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
