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Introducing the 2015 Season magazine for members fall 2014 prologue Inside American Revolutions Commissions Lynn Nottage: When the Jobs Leave Town Stan Lai: Utopia, Martial Law and Chinese History 1 introducing the 2015 season 2015 Season Prologue The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Angus Bowmer Theatre magazine for members Much Ado about Nothing Fall 2014 William Shakespeare Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz Editor Catherine Foster Guys and Dolls Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; Design book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Craig Stewart Directed by Mary Zimmerman Contributing Writers Fingersmith World Premiere Catherine Foster, Senior Editor Adapted by Alexa Junge Judith Rosen, Freelance Writer and Dramaturg from the book by Sarah Waters Eddie Wallace, Membership and Sales Manager Directed by Bill Rauch Rob Weinert-Kendt, Freelance Writer Mark Dundas Wood, Freelance Writer Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land U.S. Premiere Stan Lai Production Associate Directed by Stan Lai Beth Bardossi Sweat World Premiere, American Revolutions Proofreaders A co-commission with Arena Stage Pat Brewer Lynn Nottage Amy Miller Directed by Kate Whoriskey Oregon Shakespeare Festival Thomas Theatre Artistic Director: Bill Rauch Pericles Executive Director: Cynthia Rider William Shakespeare Directed by Joseph Haj P.O. Box 158 Long Day’s Journey into Night Ashland, OR 97520 Eugene O’Neill Administration 541-482-2111 Directed by Christopher Liam Moore Box Office/Membership 800-219-8161; 541-482-4331 The Happiest Song Plays Last Box Office/Membership fax 541-482-8045 Quiara Alegría Hudes Membership email: Directed by Shishir Kurup [email protected] Allen Elizabethan Theatre www.osfashland.org Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare Mission Statement Directed by Bill Rauch Inspired by Shakespeare’s work Head Over Heels World Premiere and the cultural richness of the Script by Jeff Whitty; United States, we reveal our music and lyrics by the Go-Go’s Directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar collective humanity through illuminating interpretations The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas, of new and classic plays, adapted by Charles Fechter deepened by the kaleidoscope Directed by Marcela Lorca of rotating repertory. 2015 opening weekend: February 27–March 1. ©2014 Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2 Prologue | Oregon Shakespeare Festival Prologue The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Contents From the Membership and Sales Manager magazine for members Eddie Wallace Fall 2014 Editor 4 Voices of Revolution Catherine Foster American Revolutions uses a multitude of voices to tell America’s Design story onstage—and it’s showing Craig Stewart the theatre world that it’s possible to dream big. Contributing Writers By Catherine Foster Catherine Foster, Senior Editor Judith Rosen, Freelance Writer and Dramaturg 8 When the Jobs Leave Town Eddie Wallace, Membership and Sales Manager Lynn Nottage’s latest play takes Rob Weinert-Kendt, Freelance Writer a searing look at the de-industrial Mark Dundas Wood, Freelance Writer revolution in a struggling town. By Catherine Foster Production Associate Beth Bardossi 10 Utopia and Martial Law Onstage Still Risking How a crazy theatrical combo of a Proofreaders farce and a tragedy became one of Pat Brewer the best-known plays in the Welcome to the upcoming 2015 season, the 80th anniversary of the Oregon Shakespeare Amy Miller modern Chinese language. Festival! By Stan Lai Oregon Shakespeare Festival With every anniversary, we remember our founder, Angus Bowmer, and what a creative Artistic Director: Bill Rauch 12 The Musical Travels of Pericles and bold risk-taker he was. “Gus” was brave and ambitious enough to envision a Executive Director: Cynthia Rider Like Pericles, composer Jack Shakespeare festival in a small Southern Oregon town that could, in time, become a Herrick’s score will take a journey treasured cultural destination for theatre lovers from all over the country. One also P.O. Box 158 from folksy to techno, with a little wonders about the resistance he encountered when he presented OSF’s first non- Ashland, OR 97520 Celtic thrown in. Shakespeare plays. (For you history buffs, it was You Can’t Take It with You in 1939 at Administration 541-482-2111 By Rob Weinert-Kendt the Holly Theatre in Medford.) No doubt more than a few letters crossed his desk Box Office/Membership 800-219-8161; complaining that he’d lost his way. 541-482-4331 13 A Victorian Play with a Modern Heart Box Office/Membership fax 541-482-8045 Alexa Junge’s challenge in adapting That sense of risk and opportunity continues to inform our work today. No one could Membership email: Fingersmith was to trim down the have known when Bill Rauch and Alison Carey announced the American Revolutions: [email protected] huge book while still staying true the U.S. History Cycle commissioning project in 2008 that one of its early successes, to the characters’ needs and wants. Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way, would go on to win the first Tony Award for Best Play www.osfashland.org By Judith Rosen in OSF’s history. Mission Statement 14 Wishes Do Come True . In the 2015 season, we’ll be inspired by stories of people who risk it all with no hope of Director Mary Zimmerman, knowing the outcome. It may be the risk of truly exposing oneself to the possibility of Inspired by Shakespeare’s work used to transforming ancient tales, love, as we see with Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing, Sky Masterson and the cultural richness of the now takes on Guys and Dolls— and Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls and the young lovers of Fingersmith and Head Over a different kind of enchantment. Heels. Risk proves tragic for the title characters in Antony and Cleopatra, while a broken United States, we reveal our By Mark Dundas Wood family finds that love is not enough to save them in Long Day’s Journey into Night. collective humanity through 15 Shake Your Booty illuminating interpretations Edmund Dantès risks his life to avenge his false imprisonment in The Count of Monte Head Over Heels is an exuberant Cristo. The title character of Pericles travels the world to simply survive and protect of new and classic plays, new musical mash-up that the lives of those he loves. Yazmin risks opening her home to her Philadelphia expresses director Ed Sylvanus deepened by the kaleidoscope neighborhood residents, and opening her heart to a lover, in The Happiest Song Plays Iskandar’s motto: “Where the play Last. The characters in Sweat and Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land find that the violent of rotating repertory. is the party.” fluctuations of the worlds around them force them into actions that will alter their By Eddie Wallace lives forever. Thank you for your support, your generosity and your willingness to travel with us on the perilous, hilarious, tuneful, thrilling and tragic adventures of the 2015 season. Let us be inspired to be brave, adventurous and bold in our own journeys. This Prologue is printed on recycled paper. All photos by Jenny Graham unless otherwise credited. 3 American Night (2010): René Millán and Stephanie Beatriz The Liquid Plain (2013): June Carryl and Kimberly Scott American Revolutions uses a multitude of voices to then a limited four-month engagement on Broadway this year. tell America’s story onstage—and it’s showing the It was a huge success, winning numerous awards, including theatre world that it’s possible to dream big. Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor, and recouping its $3.9 million investment just days after its 100th performance. It made By Catherine Foster history by breaking all box office records for a straight (non- musical) play on Broadway. merican Revolutions: the United States History Cycle is making waves. Big ones. Not bad for a dream A In 2006, Bill Rauch was sitting in his house in Los Angeles, Since 2008, OSF’s ambitious 10-year program of commissioning contemplating what he might do as OSF’s new artistic director, 37 plays (the same number in OSF’s Shakespeare canon) has were he lucky enough to get the job. He wondered, what would made two dozen commissions. OSF has produced five of them: Shakespeare do? American Night (by Richard Montoya and Culture Clash, 2010), Ghost Light (Tony Taccone, with Jonathan Moscone, 2011), Party “Shakespeare addressed the anxieties of his age—about who People (UNIVERSES, 2012), All the Way (Robert Schenkkan, 2012) would replace the childless monarch, Elizabeth—by dramatizing Caption caption caption and The Liquid Plain (Naomi Wallace, 2013). Lynn Nottage’s Sweat past episodes of the transfer of power in his country’s history,” will run in 2015. Rauch says. “How could we address the anxieties of our age and create new paths to the future by dramatizing moments And the regional theatre world is paying attention. American of change in our own country’s history? The United States was Night has had four productions around the country. Ghost Light started by an act of revolution. What are the other moments of played at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2012 and Party People explicit or implicit revolution that we need to remind ourselves will run there this fall. The Liquid Plain is scheduled for Off- of as we continue to engage in the difficult and beautiful experi- Broadway’s Signature Theatre next spring. ment that is our nation?” But perhaps the most heralded of all is All the Way, which is OSF’s At the time, he and Alison Carey were working at Cornerstone first appearance on Broadway. Bill Rauch directed the play, with Theater Company, which they’d co-founded in 1986. Rauch and a different cast that starred Bryan Cranston, for its pre-Broadway Carey were used to bringing together different groups of people tryout at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge and to have conversations about big topics, like faith, and then 4 Prologue | Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ghost Light (2011): Tyler James Myers Party People (2012): Steven Sapp writing plays from what emerged from those conversations.
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