Excerpt from Ashland Daily Tidings, Roberta Kent
March 10, 2009
When he became Artistic Director at OSF, Bill Rauch promised to broaden the vision of the Festival to include leading works from cultures other than Western European. Last year, the Festival gave us the Sanskrit classic, The Clay Cart. This year, Rauch is breaking new ground with the lavishly staged Death and the King's Horseman by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, directed by the talented Chuck Smith, resident director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
Death and the King's Horseman is the story of a true event that took place in colonial Nigeria in 1946. In Soyinka's hands, it transcends simply being a story of the clash of cultures. Here, Soyinka chronicles a society in transition, a time when a people's traditional beliefs about the relationship between this world and the spiritual world are threatened.
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Roberta Kent - Excerpt from Ashland Daily Tidings,