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Hwang, Nottage, Parks, Schenkkan, et al. to Contribute to OSF History Cycle

David Henry Hwang
(© Tristan Fuge)
David Henry Hwang
(© Tristan Fuge)

David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Robert Schenkkan, Naomi Wallace, the collaborative team of Jonathan Moscone and Tony Taccone, and the performance group Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza) will be among the commissioned writers for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 37-play, 10-year American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. The cycle is expected to debut in 2010, during OSF’s 75th anniversary.

The plays will look at moments of change in America’s past. In an interview TheaterMania conducted with artistic director Bill Rauch last year, he stated that “Shakespeare really tried to address his age’s anxiety about who was going to succeed the childless Queen Elizabeth through a series of plays that looked at power struggles in the past. We will commission a bunch of writers to create a collective body of work that tries to tap into the anxieties, hopes, and dreams of our age as pertaining to the future, and how we, by looking at our past, can better illuminate those paths.”

For more information, visit www.osfashland.org.