news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
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 [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Aug 1st, 2007
by Dan Murphy
Based on a recent talk by Bill Rauch in Carpenter Hall, Ashland, Oregon.
The mission of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is to create fresh and bold interpretations of classic and contemporary plays in repertory, shaped by the diversity of our American culture, using Shakespeare as our standard and inspiration.
Incoming artistic director of the Oregon [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, It Ain't Shakespeare, but..., OSF on Jul 30th, 2007
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Production, 2007
reviewed by Rachel Murphy
(Editor’s note: We know it ain’t Shakespeare, but we all thought this was too good a production not to comment on. So we’re adding a new category: “It ain’t Shakespeare, but…”)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2007 Season Gem is the first of a ten-play series known as “The Pittsburgh Cycle” [...]
Posted in As You Like It, Bard Northwest, OSF, the Bard on stage on Jul 25th, 2007
Directed by J.R. Sullivan
reviewed by John Murphy
[Note: this is the first of four reviews of the OSF's 2007 Shakespeare productions. We'll also be posting about our lovely afternoon chat with OSF dramaturgs Lue Douthit, David Copelin and Allison Horsley.]
Ah, just As You Like It. The Bard’s perennial crowd-pleaser comes to vivid, exuberant life in [...]
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.