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I Saw England, I’m Seeing France…

… we’ll leave your underpants out of it for now. But yes, this post is scheduled to go live right as our plane is leaving SeaTac to begin our week-ish long trip to Paris for New Year’s. As I’ve said to others, I pretty much win at girlfriend. She deserves a ton of credit [...]

30Dec2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Review: Our Town

Our Town is the first 20th century play to be produced on the Elizabethan Stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival . Given this year’s production, I’d say it’s a safe bet to expect more. This well-acted production takes no "chances" with the source material, Thornton Wilder’s 1930’s play, and contents itself with giving us the [...]

14Jul2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Oh. My. God.
If you’ve already seen one or six productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream , and you’re thinking that you can skip this year’s production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival … wrong wrong-y wrong wrong. Assuming you can still get tickets, buy two: one to see the show, and one to sacrifice to Dionysus [...]

10Jul2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Review: Othello

This year our trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival began with Othello . My experience with the play only goes so far as a reading and a movie, so I was excited to have a company I’m fond of introduce me to the work.
Well.
Many individual components of the production were very good. First and foremost [...]

4Jul2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued