Ashland July 2017 Oregon Shakespeare Festival

My sister & I drove to Ashland from Lincoln where we saw 5 shows in 3 days:

Beauty & the Beast
I'd never seen it before-- live or film --so finally the whole beastiality thing makes sense to me.  😉Lively, imaginative, and entertaining.

Shakespeare in Love
Adaptated from the film. Such a good idea to do that at this festival cuz the audience got all the allusions to Shakespeare. I especially liked this one.

Merry Wives of Windsor
A clever version complete with a sound track of 80 s music!  Very entertaining!

UniSon
Inspired by the poetry of August Wilson... It's a world premiere by 3 OSF company members. Unusual, creative & thought- provoking. I'd like to read it or the source material to get more out of it.  I was surprised that I liked it as much as I did.

The Odyssey.
Well, as you might expect:  Long!!  This one seemed to be the most traditionally staged.
I'd appreciated the shows with modern or unusual spins

As always, the actors, effects & staging were top notch!

We met up with cousin Jan & her daughter, Megan. This is the second year we have gone at the same time, though the three of them go annually.

The food, hotel ( Bard's Inn)and company were all terrific!

Jane

Sunday Oct 16. From Toulouse

We just spent the weekend in Rocamadour where I was unable to get on their wi fi, so now I need to catch up on several days.  I've felt bad because I would have liked to write more each day that included reflections, reactions, etc, but the pace of this trip has been fast and we have had precious few minutes of free time.  So here's what we've done since Thursday.

Fri Oct 14
We said au revoir to Sarlat ( which I really enjoyed) and set out on our journey towards Rocamadour. This was our first rainy day ( so we cannot complain). The region and topography really changed.  We're in the Lot Department ( state). Our first stop along the way was at a distillery in the town of Souillac.