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A noon-hour menu of activities for our patrons: Lectures ( discursos) by
company artists and visiting lecturers; Preface Plus ( Súper Prefacio),
a longer version of the OSF Preface; informal talks in the park
( conversaciones en el parque) by company members, as well as panel
discussions, demonstrations, concerts, on-your-feet workshops, and
more ( paneles, demostraciones, conciertos, talleres y más).
All events are at noon. Park Talks held in the Bill Patton Garden, outside
Gate 1 of the Elizabethan Theatre/Allen Pavilion. free. ( Gratis). All other
events are in Carpenter Hall. Tickets and details at the Box Office.
$8.00; $7.00 for members; $6.00 for youths 6–17. Please be on time.
Lectures are sponsored by KeyBank.
See what we presented earlier this year.
SCHEDULE
| Aug. 25, Tuesday | Park Talk: Michael K. Maag, Manager and Automated Lighting Programmer | | Aug. 26, Wednesday | Lecture: "The American Dream is What We Wake Up From: a Talk on Paradise Lost," Judith Rosen, Dramaturg, Paradise Lost | | Aug. 27, Thursday | Preface Plus: Equivocation | | Aug. 28, Friday | Lecture: “Is Our Paradise Really Lost?,” Libby Appel, Artistic Director Emerita, Director, Paradise Lost | | Aug. 29, Saturday | Lecture/Interactive Demonstration: “Beat Boxing and the Art of Vocal Percussion,” Adam Matta, beat boxer and vocal performance artist, New York, NY | | Aug. 30, Sunday | Park Talk: Christine Albright, Actor | | Sept. 1, Tuesday | Park Talk: Alison Carey, Director, American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle | | Sept. 2, Wednesday | Lecture: “Staging Henry VIII,” Alan Armstrong, Professor Emeritus, Southern Oregon University, Dramaturg, Henry VIII | | Sept. 3, Thursday | Preface Plus: Equivocation | | Sept. 4, Friday | Lecture: “Making it up as we go along: Commedia Dell'Arte and The Servant of Two Masters,” Lydia Garcia, dramaturg (The Servant of Two Masters, Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Music Man, Much Ado About Nothing) | | Sept. 5, Saturday | Lecture/Demonstration: “Shakespeare As ‘Originally’ Performed: Patrick Tucker's Original Shakespeare Company and London's Shakespeare's Globe,” Don Weingust, Southern Oregon University, Ashland | | Sept. 6, Sunday | Park Talk: Kathleen F. Leary, Archivist |
Here's what we presented earlier this year:
| Jun. 13, Saturday | Lecture: “Goldoni and the Landscape of Comedy: The High, the Low and the Middle,” Stephen Weeks, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR | | Jun. 14, Sunday | Park Talk: Catherine E. Coulson, Actor | | Jun. 16, Tuesday | Park Talk: Joe Porto, Scenic Construction Supervisor | | Jun. 17, Wednesday | Lecture: “To Love and Honor: Thoughts on Much Ado about Nothing,” Lydia G. Garcia, FAIR Resident Dramaturg, Dramaturg for The Music Man, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Servant of Two Masters, Much Ado About Nothing | | Jun. 18, Thursday | Preface Plus: Equivocation | | Jun. 19, Friday | Lecture: “When Something Rings You Have to Answer It: Talking About Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” Christopher Liam Moore, Director, Dead Man’s Cell Phone | | Jun. 20, Saturday | Lecture/Demonstration: “Americans Speaking Shakespeare: The State of Art,” Scott Kaiser, Director of Company Development, Head of Voice and Text | | Jun. 21, Sunday | Free Performance: Mt. Pleasant High School presents Don Quixote | | Jun. 23, Tuesday | Park Talk: Emily Sophia Knapp, Actor | | Jun. 24, Wednesday | Lecture: “Equivocation: All Bills Must Be Verified,” Geoffrey Ridden, Professor Emeritus, University of Winchester, England | | Jun. 25, Thursday | Preface Plus: Macbeth | | Jun. 26, Friday | Lecture: “Henry VIII – What Boleyn Girl?,” Geoffrey Ridden, Professor Emeritus, University of Winchester, England | | Jun. 27, Saturday | Lecture/Demonstration: "Macbeth's Line is a Gigantic Crescendo; Lady Macbeth's Line is a Diminuendo: The Fusion of Music and Psychology in Ernest Bloch's Opera of 1910," Alexander Knapp, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, England | | Jun. 28, Sunday | Park Talk: Lydia G. Garcia, FAIR Resident Dramaturg | | Jun. 30, Tuesday | Park Talk: Richard L. Hay, Principal Scenic and Theatre Designer | | Jul. 1, Wednesday | Lecture: “An Actor’s Process: Elesin in Death and the King’s Horseman,” Derrick Lee Weeden, Actor | | Jul. 2, Thursday | Preface Plus: Death and the King's Horseman | | Jul. 3, Friday | Lecture: Lecture: “The Impertinent Curiosity: Adapting Don Quixote,” Octavio Solis, Adapter, Don Quixote, Playwright, El Paso Blue, Gibraltar | | Jul. 5, Sunday | Park Talk: Thomas Chapman, Wardrobe Technician | | Jul. 7, Tuesday | Park Talk: David DeSantos, Actor | | Jul. 8, Wednesday | Lecture: “Macbeth: Thrice Times Three,” Lue Morgan Douthit, Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy, Dramaturg (Macbeth, Equivocation, Don Quixote) | | Jul. 9, Thursday | Preface Plus: Equivocation | | Jul. 10, Friday | Lecture: “Goldoni, Gozzi, Griffith and the Commedia Wars,” Melinda C. Finberg, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA | | Jul. 11, Saturday | A reading of The Times by Elizabeth Griffith, adapted from Carlos Goldoni’s The Beneficent Bear with actors Christine Albright, Linda Alper, David Kelly, Gregory Linington, directed by Melinda C. Finberg, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA | | Jul. 12, Sunday | Park Talk: Rebecca Knipfer, Carpenter | | Jul. 14, Tuesday | Park Talk: Jeff Falzone, Box Office Associate | | Jul. 15, Wednesday | Lecture: “Staging Henry VIII,” Alan Armstrong, Professor Emeritus, Southern Oregon University, Dramaturg, Henry VIII | | Jul. 16, Thursday | Preface Plus: All's Well That Ends Well | | Jul. 17, Friday | Lecture: “All’s Well That Ends Well: The Rings and the Bed-Trick,” Carol Neely, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL | | Jul. 18, Saturday | Lecture/Demonstration “Inside the Hip Hop Culture: A Fresh Look at Hip Hop,” Global Heat, Seattle, WA | | Jul. 19, Sunday | Park Talk: Lue Morgan Douthit, Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy | | Jul. 21, Tuesday | Park Talk: Jeremy Peter Johnson, Actor | | Jul. 22, Wednesday | Lecture: “Oh Well, She Meant Well: Helena’s Dilemma in All’s Well That Ends Well,” David McCandless, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN | | Jul. 23, Thursday | Preface Plus: Equivocation | | Jul. 24, Friday | Lecture: “Is Our Paradise Really Lost?,” Libby Appel, Artistic Director Emerita, Director, Paradise Lost | | Jul. 25, Saturday | Lecture: “Much Ado about Nothing In Performance,” David Riggs, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA | | Jul. 26, Sunday | Park Talk: Jacqueline Leighton, Costume Properties | | Jul. 28, Tuesday | Park Talk: G. Valmont Thomas, Actor | | Jul. 29, Wednesday | Lecture: “Oh Well, She Meant Well: Helena’s Dilemma in All’s Well That Ends Well,” David McCandless, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN | | Jul. 30, Thursday | Preface Plus: All's Well That Ends Well | | Jul. 31, Friday | “Shakespeare and the Divine Feminine,” a panel discussion on playing Shakespeare’s heroines with actors Kjerstine Rose Anderson, Robin Goodrin Nordli, Robynn Rodriguez, Vilma Silva. Moderated by Hilary Tate, former OSF Director of Publications and Senior Editor | | Aug. 1, Saturday | Workshop: Macbeth, OSF Education Department | | Aug. 2, Sunday | Park Talk: Ann Stephens, Wardrobe Supervisor | | Aug. 4, Tuesday | Park Talk: Joe Porto, Scenic Construction Supervisor | | Aug. 5, Wednesday | Lecture: “Henry VIII: Romance or History?,” Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, Worcester, MA | | Aug. 6, Thursday | Preface Plus: Equivocation | | Aug. 7, Friday | Lecture: “Is Our Paradise Really Lost?,” Libby Appel, Artistic Director Emerita, Director, Paradise Lost | | Aug. 8, Saturday | Lecture/Demonstration: “Stage Combat: Tricks of the Trade,” U. Jonathan Toppo, actor and Resident Fight Director (Macbeth, The Music Man, The Servant of Two Masters, Don Quixote, Much Ado about Nothing) | | Aug. 9, Sunday | Park Talk: Rex Young and Miriam A. Laube, Actors | | Aug. 11, Tuesday | Park Talk: Lezlie Cross, Literary Assistant | | Aug. 12, Wednesday | Chautauqua Reading: “Who We Are and Where We’ve Been”. Participants to be announced. | | Aug. 13, Thursday | Preface Plus: Macbeth | | Aug. 14, Friday | Lecture: “Macbeth and the Insane Root of Language,” Michael Allen, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | | Aug. 15, Saturday | Workshop: Renaissance Country Dance, Judy Kennedy, Renaissance Scholar and former Green Show Choreographer | | Aug. 16, Sunday | Park Talk: Michael Elich, Actor | | Aug. 18, Tuesday | Park Talk: Catherine Foster, Senior Editor | | Aug. 19, Wednesday | Lecture: : “How Well Does All’s Well End?,” Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA | | Aug. 20, Thursday | Preface Plus: Macbeth | | Aug. 21, Friday | Lecture: “Goldoni and the Landscape of Comedy: The High, the Low and the Middle,” Stephen Weeks Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR | | Aug. 22, Saturday | Lecture: “How Well Does All’s Well End?,” Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA | | Aug. 23, Sunday | Park Talk: Josiah Phillips, Actor |
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