news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Mar 12th, 2008
We just got news that Bill Rauch has announced the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 season. (To watch a video of the announcement, click here.)
ANGUS BOWMER THEATRE
MACBETH by William Shakespeare (February – November)
Director: Gale Edwards; Scenic Design: Scott Bradley; Costume Design: Murrell Horton; Lighting Design: Mark McCollough; Music/Sound: Todd Barton.
DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN by [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Mar 2nd, 2008
With the Oregon Shakespeare Festival season just getting underway, early reviews are starting to trickle in. We’ll post on that ourselves in a couple of weeks, but until then here’s what we’ve seen so far in other rags:
Reviews of Mark Rucker’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Marty Hughley, The Oregonian, Portland
Ron Cowan, Statesman Journal, Salem
Bill Varble, Mail [...]
Posted in Dan Donohue, OSF, Othello, the Bard on stage on Sep 22nd, 2007
John recently read in the Eugene Weekly that Dan Donohue, who played (wonderfully) Mercutio and Caliban this season, has been cast as the greatest stage villain of all time in the 2008 OSF production of Othello.
Yes, boys and girls, Iago.
We here in Clan Murphy hoped so very much that this was true. Indeed, the moment [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Aug 16th, 2007
Directed by Kate Buckley
Reviewed by John Murphy
Kiss Me, Kate
Not even wet Oregon weather could dampen the spirits of the 2007 Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s fiery production of The Taming of the Shrew. After the sun had set behind the Elizabethan theater, light sprinkling became scattered showers with a few spells of steady downpours. Yet [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Aug 9th, 2007
The following is a “distilled” transcript of a wonderful chat Debra, Rachel and Maire Murphy had with Oregon Shakespeare Festival dramaturgs Lezlie Cross, David Copelin and Lue Douthit. (Lue is the OSF’s Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy.) The chat was held July 18 in the company’s tiny, three-desk dramaturgy office, where we three [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.