news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
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 [...]
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.