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“Mother Road” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

By Galen|2019-04-14T15:47:57-07:00April 14, 2019|osf, plays|

World Premiere by Octavio Solis directed by Bill Rauch Mark Murphey (William Joad), Tony Sancho (Martín Jodes)Photo by Jenny Graham, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. My subconscious has delayed my writing comments about Ashland's Mother Road. I saw it opening night in early March, but I haven't felt like it was time to write about the play. Not when I first saw it. Not when I got back home and had a chance to think about it. Not ever. The problem is that I want to construct an enthusiastic collection of comments that matches the applause the audience -- including me -- [...]

Henry IV, Part One

By Galen|2017-04-23T17:10:02-07:00April 22, 2017|osf, plays|

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Henry IV, Part I :: photo by OSF Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare Writing about a performance you saw two months ago gives the "review" a different perspective. I have been slammed and until now unable to spend an hour or so detailing my thoughts of the plays I saw opening weekend. So now I remember only the more important parts of the time I spent in the theater. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it will result in shorter and snappier commentary! What I don't clearly remember about Henry IV, I is [...]