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• W263386187 abstract "For reviewers concerned with omnipresent phenomenon of director's Shakespeare, 2008 was a difficult season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The Festival mounted two early comedies and two mature tragedies: Midsummer Night's Dream in Angus Bowmer Theatre; Coriolanus in New Theatre; and Comedy of Errors and Othello on Elizabethan Stage. Both comedies were heavily conceptualized; Penny Metropulos's Errors was set in old west, and just barely followed Shakespeare's plot; Mark Rucker's Dream adhered closely to Shakespeare's script, but was so over-laden with multiple settings, especially its futuristic dream-forest, that one's sense of poetic nuances of play and its overarching vision of romantic harmony was confused. Conversely, Lisa Peterson's Renaissance Othello was an incisive study in black and white of corrosive sexual jealousy, while Laird Williamson's Fascist era setting brilliantly enhanced Coriolanus. One sensed in new Artistic Director Bill Rauch's selection of plays and directorial approaches a desire to attract younger spectators. Like other festivals, OSF is attempting to counter aging of its audience, and Rauch and Executive Director Paul Nicholson realize that OSF simply must attract new spectators if it is going to remain economically and artistically viable. The Festival's operating budget for 2008 was $25,900,000, and amazingly 78% of that figure came from earned income. During 2007 season Festival had a financial impact on southern Oregon of $163,123,808, and still employs approximately 450 theatre professionals for eleven plays during its eight month season. (1) These statistics are amazing, and emphasize Festival's overall economic and artistic health. However, they also emphasize how hard Festival must work to maintain current audience levels. Hence, perhaps, directorial choices of Penny Metropulos in Errors and Mark Rucker in Dream: way over-simplify an early comedy by setting it on the western frontier, an icon of Americana; or blast spectators into a mind-bending journey to a futuristic fairy-world populated by gay fairies and a Captain Oberon whose love potion #9 ignites human sexual desire and leaves young couples nearly naked on stage. Great fun, to be sure. And while such concepts may lure younger spectators to OSF, seasoned playgoers, and reviewers, might genuinely wonder at what cost to Shakespeare's poetry and even his plots. Sheryl Harmon, a student in my OSF class, remarked after seeing Comedy of Errors that production was 60% Blazing Saddles and 40% Shakespeare. Indeed, playbill lists Errors as Adapted by, not Directed by, Penny Metropulos. Ms. Harmon's observation was astute: set was multi-level Shady Pine Saloon in A town west of Pecos, complete with a hanging pole, rope, and pulley suggesting that lynching occurred frequently at Shady Pine. The town was inhabited by a rambling assortment of folks one might expect to find in such a locale, either shifted from Shakespeare's Ephesus to wild west or added for local color. Thus Shakespeare's Duke Solinus became town's sheriff; Emilia, Shakespeare's Lady Abbess, became proprietress of saloon and Madame for several sleazy (named Starr and Grace) who worked upstairs; Doctor Pinch, Shakespeare's schoolmaster, became snake-oil salesman Doctor Antonio Pitch; and Angelo goldsmith became Li Wei, a Chinese merchant played by Cristofer Jean with surprisingly stereotyped diction and gestures. Other denizens included several cowboys, a mine owner, a sheriff's deputy, and Jose Luis, played by Rene Millan, a troubadour in Spanish leather and splendid sombrero who strummed his guitar as he crossed stage singing love songs in English and Spanish and narrating twists of plot even when they had little to do with Shakespeare's play. The entire production was highly farcical, with numerous beatings of bewildered Dromios; cowboys pursuing dancehall gals up and down stairs; Nell, wide as a VW Bug, lurking everywhere and lustily chasing Dromio of Syracuse all over set; Jake, sheriff's deputy, lassoing them thar bad uns whenever necessary, including both Dromios and in 4. …" @default.
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