Oregon Shakespeare Festival To 'Modernize' The Bard

By Sage Van Wing (OPB)
Sept. 30, 2015 9:17 a.m.
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Furthering the argument that all Shakespeare productions are adaptations of some kind, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's current production of "Much Ado About Nothing" includes contemporary costumes, hip hop, and a Segway.

Jenny Graham / Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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Yesterday the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that it has commissioned 36 dramatists to translate Shakespeare's entire canon of plays into modern English.

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