In the fall of 2015, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced a new commissioning program called Play on! 36 playwrights translate Shakespeare. Learn how we’ve grown since then!
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“The typical Shakespeare production follows an odd convention: a contemporary setting with Elizabethan language. What if we flipped that? Contemporary language with an Elizabethan setting. What might we learn about the plays from putting them through that lens?”
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Meet the artists who worked on the translations.
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Press Room
Our translations have been produced in the U.S. and Europe to critical acclaim. Hear about our work and practice in the reviews and articles below!
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Punch to the Gut: A Cymbeline For Our Time
“A wonderful adaptation in these troubled times.”
Whisper in the Wings Episode 859
Podcast Stage Whisper interviews Taylor Bailey on his new appointment as Interim Executive Director.
NAATCO’s all-femme, all-Asian Cymbeline aims to shake up a classic
INTO’s review of Cymbeline claims the production to be a “queer utopia” where “bigotry (as we know it in a modern sense) has no opportunity to flourish.”
Simply Sublime
Pages on Stages praises Cymbeline for its “fierce and feminist” production that “offers an incredible tale of empowerment.”
This ‘Cymbeline’ Delights. So Does F. Murray Abraham in ‘Beckett Briefs.’
The New York Times deems NAATCO’s Cymbeline a “delight” that “has both a sense of frolic in satirizing macho pride and an in-the-bones understanding of male menace.”
Cymbeline Review
“Thome’s modern translation of CYMBELINE is not to be missed.”
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at GREAT LAKES THEATER
Reviewer Roy Berko says, “I started out on the side of the purist’s and ended up an advocate for the modernists.”
Great Lakes Theater looks to make Shakespeare cool again with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Cleveland.com covers the Great Lakes Theater’s preview of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, introducing the Bard to a new generation.
THEATER REVIEW: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” @ Great Lakes Theater by Laura Kennelly
Laura Kennelly proclaims, “This Great Lakes Theater production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream should tempt even jaded, experienced Shakespeare lovers into venturing into Oberon’s magic realm once again.”
“The Crows Peck the Eagles”: OSF’s Production of Coriolanus
The Siskiyou reviews the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Coriolanus, praising its accessibility and dives into the complex themes of the play.