Saturday, November 14, 2020

Play #52 -- Peter and the Starcatcher, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (at home, O!), August 29

 This is another play produced by OSF that had a very brief run in March 2020 before things shut down. It had a good run on Broadway starting in 2009 (and where we saw it in 2012). A Peter Pan prequel, the play is based on a novel co-written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

This video has some of the same production challenges that The Copper Children had (a very far-off perspective with few close-ups, not the best sound), but as a better-known play, I found it a little easier to follow than The Copper Children.  Still, I hope that OSF uses the crushing experience of 2020 to commit to producing better videos of their productions.  They do such a great job that it's a shame they can't share it with people who weren't there, like National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe can do.

https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2020-digital-plays/d-peter-starcatcher-social.aspx?promo=21601

https://www.osfashland.org/-/media/pdf/Playbill/Playbill-Peter-8-14-20-LR.ashx?la=en&hash=CC4FB86BD2CB838474524D73AF040B3A653BB467

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