Vacation: Spring Break in Ashland
It's that time of year when I make my annual pilgrimage up to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I’ll be leaving tomorrow and returning Thursday. I hope to see three plays:
- Animal Crackers: Groucho Marx running wild in this stage version of the 1930 film? Should be fun! I’ve never seen a Marx Bros. film, but my fiancé insists they are hilarious so I picked this show for him.
- White Snake: An adaptation of the Chinese legend, in which a white snake takes on the form of a human woman, falls in love with a young scholar, and attempts to win him over with the assistance of her friend, a green snake.
- Romeo & Juliet; We all know this story - in this version, the play is set in Alta California in the mid-19th century, as the Americans begin to move into their newly acquired territory.