OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

[...] OSF struggles productively with how to sustain a vigorously contemporary and multiethnic aesthetic while respecting historical and cultural specificities. [...] while two of its Shakespeare productions (Alls Well That Ends Well and Macbeth) were not located in a particular historical era, and director Kate Buckley set Much Ado About Nothing in 1940s Italywith returning soldiers recast as resistance fightersHenry VIIIs sumptuous costumes referenced the early sixteenth-century English court in which the history plays events unfold.