news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Posted in Bard Northwest, Midsummer, NWCTC, the Bard on stage on Sep 8th, 2007
There’s a lot of kissing & trickery coming to the Shoe Box Theatre as the critically-acclaimed Northwest Classical Theatre Company presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream. War has broken out between the sexes and it’ll take more than a little mischief to set things right again!
NWCTC Artistic Director Grant Turner plays Robin Goodfellow, with Portland veterans [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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.