Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced the Festival’s 2018 playbill today….
The final show to open in the Angus Bowmer Theatre is the U.S. premiere of SNOW IN MIDSUMMER by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Debuting in Ashland after the play’s widely acclaimed world premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Snow in Midsummer is a contemporary re-imagining of the 13th-century Chinese Yuan dynasty ghost story by Guan Hanqing called The Injustice to Dou E. Cowhig’s adaptation tells of the spirit of the wrongly executed Dou Yi wreaking havoc on the modern industrial village of New Harmony, bringing catastrophic drought and midsummer snow until her innocence is proclaimed. The Evening Standard praised the RSC production as “a beguiling and unexpected evening” that has “an unusual and most particular sense of grace and beauty.” The director of Snow in Midsummer will be announced shortly.
https://www.osfashland.org/press-room/press-releases/2018-season
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