Ashland, OR and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

We spent four nights at Emigrant Lake County Park on a beautiful lake.  Since we had stayed at this park before, we reserved the primo site.

Unfortunately we endured rain and wind after this first partly sunny day.

But no matter.  We stopped at Ashland principally to attend live theater again at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  People from around the world attend productions in this four theater complex.  We bought tickets six months in advance, and found half of the productions sold out.

Despite the name, most of the plays are not written by Shakespeare.  We saw the following shows:
The Imaginary Invalid - Moliere's last play.  Rewritten with a 60's flair, it was delightful and unexpected, with satire, music and dance, and clever plot twists.
August: Osage County - a Pulitzer Prize winning tragedy about a dysfunctional family reunited over a death.  The story was somewhat familiar, but the acting and direction were superb.
Julius Caeser - by you-know-who.  Well conceived and unique.  Even to the point that the title character was female.
The Language Archive - the weakest play of the four.  The author couldn't seem to make up his mind if he was writing about love or communication.  And the ending, indeed the final words, referred to a theme unmentioned to that point.

But then, everyone's a critic.

Bruce