West is West.(Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
American Theatre, May, 2001 by BROWN, LENORA INEZ
Libby Appel stakes her claim at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Newark. Seattle. Medford. Ashland. Nine hours of flying. The pioneers had a more arduous task-six months of traveling the Oregon Trail in a wagon train-but one can imagine their exhilaration on reaching their end-of-the-continent destination. That thought sets the mood for my own private western, a first-ever visit to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The 20-minute drive from the airport in Medford to Ashland wends through the moonlit expanses of the Rogue Valley. Once off the main road, I can see in the glow ...
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