Announcing our 2018-2019 Season!
MACBETH |
by William Shakespeare September 26 – November 11, 2018 |
Macbeth, a noble Scottish lord, is shown a pathway to power and the throne by supernatural beings. His bloody ambition and ruthless wife spur him on with complete and utter abandon to make the prophecy a reality. But everything, especially power, comes at a cost. Shakespeare’s eerie and thrilling tragedy explores unchecked thirst for control, tyranny and its consequences.
Written for the Hitz Shakespeare Translation Project as part of the “Play On!” Project of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. |
EQUIVOCATION |
by Bill Cain
October 11 – November 10, 2018 |
It is England,1605, and a terrorist plot to assassinate the King of England, James I, and blow up Parliament with barrels of gunpowder has been foiled. Prime Minister Robert Cecil commissions William Shakespeare to write a lasting history of the failed plot. King James wants a play and he wants witches. As Shakespeare wrestles with the dilemma of being a propagandist playwright in service to the Crown, his company of fellow actors at the Globe Theatre explore the new play and find the story might just be a political cover. Do the actors speak truth to power, the King and Cecil, and risk spending their lives in prison, or worse, lose their heads? |
NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM |
by Nathan Alan Davis
January 30 – February 24, 2019 |
Nat Turner led a slave revolt that shocked the country in August of 1831. The evening before Turner is scheduled to be executed, he and attorney Thomas R. Gray, the recorder of his confessions, confront what has passed and what the future may hold. Full of rich imagery, this politically timely story explores morality, freedom, spirituality, and one man’s convictions. |
TWELFTH NIGHT |
by William Shakespeare
in collaboration with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston March 29 – April 28, 2019 |
Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Twins are separated in a shipwreck and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on Olivia, who falls for Viola but is idolized by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, the spitting image of his twin sister… is it possible for this to all end well? Well, it IS a comedy! |
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE |
by Kate Hamill adapted from the novel by Jane Austen in collaboration with the Dorset Theatre Festival June 5 – 30, 2019 |
Not your run of the mill Jane Austen dramatization, Kate Hamill’s adaptation abandons the drawing room for a comic playground of sexually repressed characters skirmishing for their own romantic existences. The Bennet sisters, including passionate yet judgmental Lizzy and shy yet sensible Jane, have been raised by their overbearing mother with one purpose—find a man (preferably wealthy) before it’s too late. When a bachelor takes up residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets pulsate with the possibilities. Jane meets kind and handsome Bingley and sparks fly, but when Lizzy meets reserved yet proud Darcy, things begin to fall apart. Will these iconic characters find bliss or will their lack of social and economic capital leave them all pining? |
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