![]() The event is sponsored by the City of Eugene, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts. Adding to the atmosphere, University of Oregon theatre students will mingle among the crowd wearing Alexandra Bonds’s award-winning Shakespeare costumes, and delicious Renaissance savory and sweet treats will be served. The evening will continue with a reception featuring Renaissance music performed by Phil and Gayle Neuman. The performance will be directed by OSF actor Terri McMahon supported by dramaturg Lue Douthit and stage manager Heath Belden.Īfter the performance, the cast will discuss with the audience Shakespeare’s changes and how actors and directors choose among Shakespeare’s different texts. OSF actors Robin Goodrin Nordli, Regan Linton and Leah Anderson will play his daughters while Kyle Haden is playing Kent. This one-time performance will highlight the intriguing variations between Shakespeare’s two published versions of the play, one printed during Shakespeare's lifetime and the other, in the "First Folio," published seven years after the playwright's death.Īctor and dramaturg Barry Kraft, who has been with OSF for 27 seasons, will portray Lear. “Sweetly Writ” is an original work comprised of Shakespeare’s own changing versions of “King Lear” which will demonstrate how Shakespeare conceived different takes on the same characters and situations in multiple versions of the same play. For tickets, visit the Hult Center Ticket Office in person, call 54, or visit. The performance and gala are free, but tickets are required. (December 11, 2015) – Actors from the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) perform excerpts from “King Lear” in “Sweetly Writ” at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Januat 7 p.m. “Sweetly Writ: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Celebrates Shakespeare's First Folio” is Saturday, January 9 at 7 p.m.ĮUGENE, Ore. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Celebrates Shakespeare’s First Folio with a Gala Performance at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts
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