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SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL STUDY TOUR - ASHLAND, OREGON
July 22-27 in Ashland with prologue lecture series in Vancouver

The Oregon Shakespearean Festival is presenting Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus,
Hamlet and Two Gentlemen of Verona this coming summer. Initiated in 1935, the
Festival pioneered in the western hemisphere the staging of William Shakespeare's
plays in the Elizabethan manner and through the years has grown in stature and
style until today it is an event of international renown. The Institute of
Renaissance Studies of the Festival provides a stimulating introduction to
Renaissance life and thought which is important to the understanding and enjoyment

of Shakespeare's plays.

A series of lectures will be given in Vancouver beforehand by UBC faculty members
and then the class will join students of the Institute who come from all over

North America. Coordinating the Ashland program will be Professor Homer D. Swander
(Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara), Executive Director,
Institute of Renaissance Studies. In the mornings, lectures, discussions, and
backstage tours will be held with faculty members of the Institute and actors,
directors and designers from the theatre company. The focus will be upon the
transformation of script into finished stage production. Evening performances will
be seen in the famous outdoor theatre patterned after the Fortune Theatre of
Shakespeare's London. Matinees will take place in the delightfully intimate indoor
Angus Bowmer Theatre. Nightly before the plays the audience may enjoy the Tudor

Fair with its strolling musicians, singers and dancers-on-the-green.
Additional plays being presented are A Cry of Players and Waiting for Godot.

Participants may stay in the Residence Halls of Southern Oregon College or may make

their own arrangements for accommodation.

Ashland is 15 miles north of the Oregon-California border in the upper part of the
Rogue River Valley, a vacation area of scenic and recreational attractions, includina
Crater Lake National Park, the Oregon Caves National Monument and Jacksonville, a

well-preserved frontier town.

For further information, please call the Creative Arts Program at 228-2181, local 254.

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