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Bill Rauch's Oregon Trail: the next stop on the director's journey into the heart of America is the venerable OSF.(Interview)

American Theatre,  October, 2006  by Kendt, Rob

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The first time Bill Rauch directed a play in Oregon, the venue was a cattle sale barn with a soil floor so dry that it had to be wet down before each performance so clouds of dust wouldn't get kicked up and blind the audience. The only bathroom facility was an outhouse a decorous distance away.

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That 1988 production, an adaptation of Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan, retooled and re-titled for the farming town of Long Creek (pop. 230), featured a cast of local amateurs alongside Rauch's professional colleagues who, with Rauch as team leader, had logged thousands of miles bringing ...

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