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Ashland Early Bird Reviews the Shakespeare Fest(2)
In case you thought of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland as just a summer extravaganza, you could be missing out on some of the prime (but relatively unsung) joys of life here in Jefferson State. Even though they never appear on the festival’s playbill, a few of Ashland’s best “shows” are already &#…
Five Finger Exercises at Berkeley Rep
Anybody who’s ever had - or been - a kid can probably remember those mix-and-match picture books with pages split three ways: a set of miscellaneous heads, assorted midriffs and a selection of feet or tails. The joy of it was to permute the various bits into as many fanciful Push-Me-Pull-You creatures as you can dream up.
Tiny Kushner,…
Ashland’s Macbeth: Positive Thinker
If you’ve only ever seen plummy Brit-accented versions of Shakespeare, wait until you hear the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Robin Goodrin Nordli drawl “… by the all-hail hereafter!/ …transported beyond/ This ignorant present, … I feel now/ The future in the instant.”
As survivors of the Great 2…
In Ashland, ‘Henry VIII’ = Wally I
Euro-trash academics can equivocate all they please, but we Americans have long known what to make of England’s king Henry VIII: a debauchee and serial wife-killer. So it may come as a surprise to see a considerably cuddlier Henry portrayed on Ashland’s Elizabethan Stage this season - maybe not quite as winsome as the Herman&…
