We had high hopes for this production. After OSF's 2020 season was canceled, we assumed we wouldn't be able to see anything from OSF til 2021 at the earliest. Unlike Stratford, National Theatre, or the Globe, OSF doesn't have an extensive library of professionally filmed versions of their plays.
So we were pleasantly surprised to hear about their rollout of filmed versions of a few plays from the very beginning of their season, prior to everything shutting down in March.
The Copper Children, one of the American Revolutions-commissioned plays, was about the history of the Orphan Trains in the early 1900s, where Irish children were sent out west from New York City.
Sadly, since this was being filmed purely for the use of OSF and not for production, the sound and visuals were just not that great, and the streaming quality was weak as well. It pains me to criticize my beloved OSF, but this wasn't one of their best days. I'd still like to see the play in person, but a distant camera angle and hard to understand dialogue did not work for me.
https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2020-digital-plays/d-copper-children.aspx
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