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Shakespeare, Wilde, and Sondheim

Ashland Trip!

Laurel Tree has been attending plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for more than twenty years. Help us keep the tradition alive!  We're raising money to send students to see three amazing shows, take the backstage tour, and stay at the Southern Oregon University dorms.  Contribute to our scholarship fund so we can make sure all students have this experience.

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Three great plays, three different theaters, one fabulous trip to start our year!  Laurel Tree returns to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival August 27-29th

As You Like It - Love will find a way

The Forest of Arden comes to life in the Thomas Theatre when Rosalind and her cousin Celia escape an oppressive uncle and take to the wilderness. Disguised as a man, Rosalind searches for her true love, Orlando—who doesn’t recognize her in her new persona. But anything can happen in the forest, including poems in the trees, star-crossed shepherds, and a band of exiles who become family. Identities are lost and true selves are found in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, bringing its magic to our most intimate theatre in this song-filled, 1960s-infused production by director Lisa Peterson (Hamlet, 2016).

Approximate running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes, including one intermission.

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Into the Woods - "Be careful what you wish for."

How far would you go to make your wish come true? Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (of beanstalk fame), and a baker and his wife find out when they take a journey into the woods. It’s a magical, bewildering place full of witches, wolves, giants, and mysterious strangers where familiar fairy tales tangle and twist together. Wishes come true here, but at a price. Amanda Dehnert’s production of this smash-hit musical thrilled audiences in 2014, and we’re bringing its hilarity, menace, irreverence—and eminently singable score—back to our theatre under the stars, where it will delight audiences of all ages during this season’s celebration of our 90th anniversary.

Approximate running time: 2 hours, 55 minutes, including one intermission.

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The Importance of Being Earnest - "A comedy of (hardly any) manners"

Director Desdemona Chiang transports Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners to the British Malay Peninsula, a colonial melting pot of South Asian, Chinese, and English communities. Two rakish young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, opt to navigate Victorian-era expectations of courtship simply by evading them. But when their personas and egos begin to collide, the pair get caught up in a wit-fueled whirlwind of mistaken identities and romantic snafus. This “trivial comedy for serious people” reveals the absurd lengths that humans will go to in pursuit of acceptance, love, and truth.

Approximate running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes, including two intermissions.

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